Re: Disk Mirroring (RAID Level 1) XP Pro

Quick wrote:
I am building a PC and have two Maxtor 160GB SATA hard drives. I want to setup a RAID Level 1 so that I have one disk mirroring the other. I am running Windows XP Pro SP2. The motherboard that I have supports RAID levels 0, 1, 0+1. When loading XP I installed the RAID driver using F6. The system loads normally but when I switch both drives to dynamic and then go to add mirror, the add mirror is grayed out. Is there a separate software that I need to control the RAID or am I doing something wrong. Please advise.

If you have RAID on the motherboard, it does everything. You need RAID monitoring software from the motherboard manufacturer.

Windows will only see 1 drive, so no need to convert to dynamic as XP will not allow software RAID.

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