Stripe Raid (RAID 0) Win 7

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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
 
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?
 
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.
 
I'm surprised nobody has asked WHY the OP is trying to create a RAID 0 pack on 2X1TB drives! Hope the OPs got a good backup plan sorted!! 2TB of data on RAID 0, no thanks...
 
I'm surprised nobody has asked WHY the OP is trying to create a RAID 0 pack on 2X1TB drives! Hope the OPs got a good backup plan sorted!! 2TB of data on RAID 0, no thanks...

Why not?

I stripe 2 x 2TB disks. I have no need for redundancy on the data they hold and need sheer performance only.

Also, RAID is not a backup solution. It's a redundancy solution. If you want backup, use backup - Not RAID.
 
Why not?

I stripe 2 x 2TB disks. I have no need for redundancy on the data they hold and need sheer performance only.

Also, RAID is not a backup solution. It's a redundancy solution. If you want backup, use backup - Not RAID.

Would be interested to know what you need 4TB of space for that doesn't need to be backed up? - genuine question, not trolling :)

I didn't say anything about using RAID as a backup solution ;)
 
Would be interested to know what you need 4TB of space for that doesn't need to be backed up? - genuine question, not trolling :)

I didn't say anything about using RAID as a backup solution ;)

Games
Game recordings (GBs and GBs per minute)
Downloaded files (Be it application, game installers or otherwise)
Digital capture from old physical tape recordings

2TB disks were on offer, were almost as cheap as their 1TB counterparts. Why not?
 
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.
 
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.
 
Nothing wrong with using windows striping - unless you're using a proper raid card it's all software based anyway.

Try using diskpart and the clean command on each disk before raiding them in Disk Management. Google it for full instructions, just make double sure you have the correct disk selected.
 
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