IDE and RAID Question

Yup, assuming the BIOS setup is similar to my board (think it's just the MSI version with the same MCP), you need to go into BIOS and enable RAID on the 2 ports your SATA drives are connected to, and use the nForce RAID manage thingymabob to create the array which should come up just after POST but before Windows starts loading. If you already have windows running on the other drive, you might be able to do this in windows with the program you get with the nforce driver package. I don't know as I set up both my RAID 0's before installing windows on the smaller one. Hope this helps.

Oh right, I think the problem is that Windows hasn't initialised them yet. To fix this, go to Control Panel, then Administrator Tools (assuming you're running XP of course) and then Computer Management. Select Disk Management from the left hand list, and it'll give you a list of disks in the bottom half of the window, the top bit is current partitions. Just scroll down the list of disk drives until you find your 2 SATA drives and right click on them, there should be an option to initialise them (or something like that).

As for if they're set up under Nvidia or SI, that would depend which SATA ports you're running them off, iirc the first 4 are the NV, the other 4 (?) will be on Silicon. You might also want to check the Device Manager, see if you have any devices that aren't working.

Well...I have another problem now. I can get the drives initialized but then when I go to format the partition, it formats all the way to the end and pops up an error message:

Logical Disk Manager

Format did not successfully complete!


3 tries, all with the same result. Any clues?


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Hmmm.....rebooted and now the formated partition is showing. No idea why the error message before. Oh well....formatting the second partition.

*get's back from work*

*reads your posts*

I thought you wanted them RAIDed? if so, you don't want to format them yet, just initialise them (no, they won't appear in My Computer like that) and then create the RAID array using the Nvidia RAID Manager utility. In fact, now I think about it, I'm not even sure if initialising the drives was necessary. Oh well, creating a RAID array in windows with new drives is something I've never done either