Stripe Raid (RAID 0) Win 7

Darrensen · 8 Feb 2013 at 09:42

Hi,

I'm having trouble setting up a RAID on my two 1tb WD drives. The error i get when trying to create the raid is...

"There is not enough space available on the disk(s) to complete the operation"

Both volumes have their partitions removed so they are a fresh disk.

Any ideas on how to get around this?

Thanks

Darrensen · 11 Feb 2013 at 12:06

It's a Gigabyte Z77 UD3H, so yes.

I was told if i'm not raiding the the OS drives then the best way to do it was from the OS.

Darrensen · 23 Feb 2013 at 13:26

So I tried what you said.

Went in bios and changed from achi to raid

Set the two drives to raid 0

Back into bios to change to achi because the C drive just blue screens on boot.

Get into win 7, go to manage to intilize the drive.

All looking good and then as its intilizing I get "system cannot find file specified"

Any ideas?

Darrensen · 25 Feb 2013 at 16:19

Basically my needs are for game recordings. I need the additional write speeds Raid 0 brings.

I use Crashplan to backup my pc.

But essentially any recordings i make on the PC get transferred to my mac for editing, then that machine gets backed up via Time Machine.

Darrensen · 25 Feb 2013 at 16:21

rpstewart said:
You need to change the SATA drivers that Windows is using so that it'll boot and recognise the newly created array.

If you have a search on here there's a registry tweak that you need to follow.

So boot into Win, then go into the regedit, tweak the setting. Go back to the bios and then boot into win.

I best make a clone incase i can't get back in.