Adding Raid 0 array as media drive, Windows 7

Sean F

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Nov 30, 2013
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Hi All,

I've been looking for a solution to my problem on this forum and google and don't seem to find an answer to what seems like a simple question, hope someone can help!


I have the OS (windows 7) and software on a typical C drive, I've added 3x1TB drives (all identical) to my system and set them up as raid 0 through BIOS.

So my system has one C drive, another drive D for bits and bobs and the 3 raided drives for a multimedia scratch disk (need it raid 0 for faster reading and writing).

Looking at the disk manager, it has been recognised (online) as a single disk (what I want) but is currently unallocated, and been split into two sections one at 2048 GB and the other at 746 GB.

I'm scratching my head now, I have read that there are problems when using a drive over 2TB so think this is why it has split it.

Basically I want to access it as a single 3TB drive and assign it a drive letter, can anyone give me some guidance?

Thanks in advance!
 

Sean F

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Found the solution by playing with the disk manager!
Converted the dist to a GPT type disk, then created a partition and added a drive letter.

Easy once you know how!