Raid Problems

Ballz · 23 Mar 2011 at 16:09

Hi, there's probably an easy answer to this problem & I'll feel stupid but hey..

I have two 1TB drives and Ive created a raid 0 array (created two volumes at setup, 931.5 MB each)

Windows 7 installed without problem to one volume but the second volume will not show up in Windows & I have 931.5MB doing nothing.

I went "Manage" & clicked on disk management & get the following screen:

I cannot enable or do anything with the "unallocated" drive :mad:

HELP etc

Thanks in advance

Jackal · 23 Mar 2011 at 16:15

Well its not running raid 0, or it would have shown as 1 disc and not 2.
But if you right click where it says Disk 1, and click convert to GPT ( i think ) that will allow you to format and mount the drive

Ballz · 23 Mar 2011 at 16:23

I made two volumes as I wanted my array to be partioned. I know Raid 0 takes two drives & makes it one (speed) & Raid 1 mirrors the first drive.

May just go back to one huge 1.8T Raid 0 array

feriso · 23 Mar 2011 at 16:33

Well tbh I wouldn't bother with RAID0, if one fails you've lost a huge amount of data, either stick to JBOD or RAID1

Jackal · 23 Mar 2011 at 20:30

feriso said:
Well tbh I wouldn't bother with RAID0, if one fails you've lost a huge amount of data, either stick to JBOD or RAID1

+1 it would probabally be for the best to do this

Ballz · 25 Mar 2011 at 23:48

Nevermind, I sorted it & yes it was something stupid :S