Problem setting up raid on Intel 965

Soldato
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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 ?
 
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.
 
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