Adding RAID Drives to XP

[ThomasKMC]

I have XP Pro installed on a single WD Raptor. I now want to add 4 more drives in a RAID5 configuration to my system which is based on a ICHR10 chipset. The BIOS is configured, the RAID is configured, the raid volume appears in the device manager with no indication of any error. The Intel Storage Manager is also aware of it. But I don't see it in the XP disk manager and am not able to assign a drive letter ot it. Why? How is this supposed to work? Can anyone help?

Thanks,
-tom

 

[ThomasKMC]

I want to add that I'm not indending of moving the XP installation to the RAID volume. I only want to save non-OS files there. Just to make it a little clearer....

 

[armstrda]

Probably need to initialize the disk in the RAID console

 

[ThomasKMC]

I did but it still does not show up in the disk manager...

 

[somethingsketchy]

I assume they are the same model and size? Are you using the motherboard's RAID capabilities or a RAID card?

 

[0roo0roo]

did u buy a spare ICHR10 chipset board?

 

[postmortemIA]

can you show screenshots of intel's console and disk management?