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RAID 0 HDD question

post #1 of 7
Thread Starter 
Ok, this is my first raid machine, but my m9700 shows to have two drives, which are supposed to equal 100 gigs each, making fro 200 gigs of storage, but windows only shows that I have 100 gigs of storage?

What's up with that?
post #2 of 7
Thread Starter 
ok, so when I went into the bios, it shows the nvidia raid driver to be disabled, is that they way it is supposed to be set?
post #3 of 7
NO, AW fracked up and you need to a) setup Raid, then B) reinistall windows.

Ill write you a quick guide, but call AW and have them walk you through it. I only know this well because it is the same nvidia RAID controller as my desktop.

First you need to enable NVIDIA raid in the BIOS, where you see disabled, change to enabled.

Second, make sure the second SATA drive
a)exists
b)is enabled in BIOS.

After that save changed and exit.

During boot up, when you see the AW logo, press ESC to see POST or just disable the “POST logo” in BIOS.

You will see black “dos like” screen instead of the AW face…

When it says NVIDIA RAID “Press F10 to enter RAID setup” (something like that) press F10

From there I would think you have to build your array. I don’t have it in front of me but the steps are similar to

1.create new array
2.Select disks for array (select both disks)
3.Type RAID is 0 or “striping”
4.After it creates the raid your status should say something like “
array 1 “stripe” healthy
5.Make this array your boot array (I think you just press b)

Bad news is after that you have to reinstall windows… in fact, if you did all this already, you lost all data (I warned ya)

When windows setup asks where to install, you should see “un partitioned space 200GB”
post #4 of 7
Thread Starter 
Holy Freaking crap, I figured that. Now that just pisses me off...

Anyways, I am going to have to back up all my data first, I spent all morning moving it over from my dell 6000. I meant to check that first, but I forgot. After I got everything set up and running, I realized I hadn't checked.

Oh well, now to backing things up - here I go...
post #5 of 7
Before you get to far into backups, verify you have the second HDD installed!
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post #7 of 7
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Quote:
Originally Posted by marker01
Before you get to far into backups, verify you have the second HDD installed!
well, windows doesn't recognize the 2nd drive, but the bios does, and it is physically there... I am on hold with tech support now trying to get somebody. I am really dissapointed, but at least this is only a minor setback... AW really does need to make some improvements in a lot of areas if they are going to keep customers. Little things like this are really annoying...
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