Windows on RAID
From: Doug A. (armypilot_at_news.postalias)
Date: 11/28/04
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Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 18:11:26 -0800
If I'm tracking correctly, you have your OS installed on
another drive, you've added your Raid 0 array, and then
formatted and partitioned in through the Computer
Management / Disk Management snap in? Go back into Disk
Management and make sure you included the entire space
when you created a Primary/Extended partition after the
drive was recognized. I've got ahead of myself by having
the partitions sizes I want and clicked through
the "create partition" menu too fast and only reserved
part of the drive for use.
You are right that Windows will "see" the array and treat
it no differently than a single drive as long as you've
set it up in the bios and resulting raid management
screen shown in the POST). BTW I have the same identical
Raptors set up in a Raid 0 array with a 2GB FAT16
partition and then the remaining space split in half for
a dual boot with XP Pro SP2 and Server 2003 on the
remaining partitions. When you do go to placing this
array as your boot drive, please ensure you've made a
floppy with the raid drivers for the F6 prompt when
reinstalling your OS.
>-----Original Message-----
>Hello
>I have a RAID 0 array, two 36.7GB WD Raptors, and I have
been sittin around
>wanting to install Windows XP on the array. But first, I
wanted to use the
>Windows XP on my IDE drive to scan and use the array so
I could see how
>everything behaved. So I finally let my RAID array boot
with IDE drive,
>Windows scanned the array, installed drivers (Windows
had already installed
>the RAID controller long ago) then rebooted. I thought
everything was working
>fine, until I looked at the capacity of my new drive.
Windows is treating the
>array like one drive (like it should, duh) but is only
using half the total
>space (36.7GBs). Windows detects ALL the available space
(about 73GBs) but is
>only formatting half of it.
>I've looked at the settings for the array in the RAID
controller's menu a
>billion times: nothing is wrong.
>I've looked at the Windows settings for the RAID
controller and the drive/s:
>nothing unusual.
>Could one of my drives be crap? (Both are new, that
would suck)
>I am stumped. I'm glad I thought to let Windows use the
array before
>actually installing Windows on it.
>Thanks to anyone who can help!
>.
>
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