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Help with raid please

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johnjk

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Well, after alot of work I finally got it up and running and have xp installed. The problem is that I've got 2 40 gig hard drives and it's only showing 38.1 gig in my computer as the total size. I guess it's only reading one drive. Any idea what I need to do? Thanks.
 
What RAID did you try to run; 1 or 0? If 1, (redundant) then it sounds like you did it right. A 40 GB drive loses about 2 Gig in the formatting process.


When your PC boots, you should see the RAID controller BIOS flash by after the mobo's bios. Does it show RAID 1 ARRAY or something like that?

You could also go into the RAID controller BIOS and see how the drives are setup. Usually you'll see "Hit CTRL-H to enter Highpoint BIOS" during the boot cycle.
 
Actually, I did raid 0, or stipping. The fastrack utility shows it as 80 gig, and functional. I formatted, but never actually did an fdisk. I'm trying fdisk and format now. I deleted the primary dos partition and then added one. It's showing formatting 10,79.25M right now, but I've read there is a problem with fdisk not showing the correct size. It's going really slow, so I think it may be formatting the whole thing. I've been up all night at work, and probably should have started this with a fresh mind. I hope this works this time.
 
I think I got it. It finished formatting and showed 76 gig free. Now I get to reinstall xp. :disgust:

Thanks
 
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