Can Maxblast Plus be used to format/partition 2 drives that are in raid 0 ?

nippyjun

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I'm building a system with 2 20 gig maxtor hard drives. I'm new to Raid so bear with me. I know that I need to go into the bios to configure the raid, but then I need to format and partition the drives. It's the formatting and partitioning that I need help with. In the past with one hard drive I just use the maxblast plus software. But with raid can I use the maxblast plus software? If not then what can be used.
 

xchangx

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What os are you using? Win2k lets you partition and format from the drive manager. Or you could just fdisk it. When you raid the computer sees it as one big drive. I have 2 ibm 45gig's raided together.

Chang
 

nippyjun

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I'll be using winme. I've never used Fdisk before, I've always used the more friendly maxblast software. Assuming I can't use the maxblast software can someone tell me step by step how to use Fdisk? Thanks.
 

PsyNinja

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Maxblast will only detect hard drives on the main motherboard IDE channels in my experience
to use Fdisk you jneed to use a startup disk and from one of the prompts simply type fdisk and it will start the program
you need to make a primary partition, then an extended partition, and then separate the extended partition into logical DOS drives.
 

nippyjun

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Psyninja, this is good info. Thanks.

Is the primary partition the "C" drive and the extended partition the space that is left over that can be further partitioned? Or is the primary partition the physical drive and the extended partition all the partitions?

Thanks!
 

Sukhoi

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Primary is C: Then the space leftover is the extended partition. Within the extended partition you can have multiple logical partitions, which are what you see in Windows, etc.