Re: Setting up Raid 1


"UWRFREPORTER04" <UWRFREPORTER04@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I am not 100% sure (not in the office today), but I think the raid was on
the
SATA hard drive or SATA controller. The only software that it came with
was
the drivers for the server. I could see two differen thard drives under
disk
managment. One wad disk 0 and the other wad disk 1. I thought it should
see
it as one big hard drive, that allows you to mirror it.

I didn't even think about looking at the BIOS. Does it matter that the
second hard drive is formatted or should I redo the entire installation?
Can
the raid be set up after the OS is installed or do I need to reformat both
hard drives and start over from the BIOS menu without any OS installed?









"dvw" wrote:


"UWRFREPORTER04" <UWRFREPORTER04@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message
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I am attempting to set up a Raid 1 with two sata hard drives. The raid
controller is located on the hard drive from my understanding from our
vendor.

I formatted the first hard drive, converted it into a dynamic volume.
I've
done the same for the unpartitioned hard drive. Created a new
partition,
converted it into a dynamic volume. One hard drive is named C, the
other
E.

From here, I am not certain of what is missing or what I need to do. I
don't see an option to mirror the two disks under disk management. The
server is new and there is nothing set up on it besides the
installation
of
the OS. The hard drive can be reformatted if something is set up
incorrectly.

If you truly have a hardware RAID controller, with most controllers you
won't see two drives in Windows, just one, and the RAID 1 configuration
is
set up in the RAID controller BIOS, not Disk Management. Can you really
see
two drives, or just two partitions (C and E) on the hardware RAID mirror?
You might want to doublecheck what setup you have with your vendor.



Before doing anything else I suggest you find out exactly what you have on
the server- is it hardware RAID, if so, what is the controller model, how is
it configured, etc. Normally with hardware RAID the RAID configuration needs
to be done before OS installation , using the BIOS, then loading the drivers
via F6 as Cleve mentioned.


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