fixed nevermind

[KayKay]

OK So i have RAID 0 setup on my two 160 GB drives.

the RAID 0 is intact with OS installed on it and lots of data

I unplugged my RAID drives and popped in a new single seagate 320.

I installed windows on the seagate 320

Then i replugged in the RAID 0 drives (two 160s), nvidia raid Bios detects a stripe that exists. I installed the nvidia raid driver for windows.

Now, in the disk management section of computer management in control panel, I see
1 Basic Disk 298.0 GB in size and an unallocated disk called disk 2.

The disk management tool asks me to intialize and convert dynamic disks, but i dont want to do anything that will mess up my data.

how do i enable it so that I can see my raid 0 array?!
any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Jiggz]

What I don't understand is why do you have to unplug your RAID 0 just to install additional hdd? But that is water over the bridge for now. Since everything is the same, you can go ahead and re-initialize the RAID using the RAID Bios. It should work since everything is the same, assuming you plugged in the hdd's like it was before.

I believe you're goal was to transfer the RAID 0 into a single hdd. If this is the case, you could have just installed the single hdd and then after partitioning and format, use Ghost to copy the RAID into the hdd. In fact, even Maxblast can do the copying. Then test the single hdd and if works, you can delete the RAID 0 array.

 

[KayKay]

thanks for the reply i found another way around it.

i'll run away now