Problem setting up raid on Intel 965

Chaos · 30 Aug 2007 at 21:44

I just done a fresh Vista install, set up raid 0 with 2 identicle drives in bios, Installed Vista, installed Intel Chipset Drivers, Instaled Intel Storage Matrix Manager.

I have Vista on 1 drive and the raid set up on 2 others.

When Launching the Intel Storage Matrix Manager it shows the Raid volume set up, when I go into Vistas disk management it shows the Raid as Disk 1, Unknown and not initialised, when I right click the volume to set it up
new simple volume and the other options are greyed out so I cant set up a partition and format it.

Should I have set up drivers prior when installing Vista ?
It still showed the raid volume when I had to chose a drive to install Vista so I assumed I didnt have to load any aditional drivers ?

jbloggs · 30 Aug 2007 at 22:25

If I understand you correctly, you first installed Vista on a single HDD (in IDE mode), then you attached 2 other HDDs to set up a RAID0 volume, and this is what you are having problems with?

If so (with ICHxR), I believe you actually need to initially install Vista on the RAID0 volume (installing the RAID drivers at that time and thus making it bootable, ie C:\), then attach any other HDDs after that.

If I'm wrong on this issue I'm sure some kind person will correct me.

rpstewart · 30 Aug 2007 at 22:44

I'd be surprised if you couldn't boot from a single drive and have a RAID0 array as a second drive.

When you started Disk Management did it show a message suggesting that it had foudn new disks and needed to write a signature to them? If not have you tried the Rescan Disks option in the Actions menu? That should force Disk Management to recheck all the disks and hopefully prompt you to write the signature to the RAID array to allow DM to access it.

Chaos · 30 Aug 2007 at 23:53

Turned out to be something really simple.

I had to right click on the disk icon and choose initalise in disk management for some reason that option wasnt available when you right click the area representing the free space. Once that was done it let me set up the disk and format it.

jbloggs · 31 Aug 2007 at 02:52

Chaos said:
Turned out to be something really simple.

I had to right click on the disk icon and choose initalise in disk management for some reason that option wasnt available when you right click the area representing the free space. Once that was done it let me set up the disk and format it.

Glad you got it sorted, also good to know that it is possible to set it up the way you did...