need help with raid 0

[Magihyren]

Hey, this is my first time, that I tried raiding two drives together so please bare with me. I have the ASUS Rampage Formula mobo, and im using 2 Western Digital WD6400AAKS drives.

My problem that I have atm is how i "raided" my drives. I first change in the bios to the raid setting for the drives, then I configured them, in the raid menu where you hit crtl i, and raided the drives. But I couldn't install the windows vista os (i couldn't get the driver thing). So what I did next is I only partioned 75 GB from one drive, and then installed the os. Then after I installed i, i used the Intel Matrix Storage Console to create a raid volume from existing hard drive, and I guessed I set it to use 100% of the drive in raid. So supposedly I get like 596.1 Gb x2 = 1192.2 Gb to use. But from what i see after migration is only the 75 GB partion I made earlier. Is there anyway to do more partions besides the 75 gb, and also, how can I get access or use the rest of my hd? Thanks.

 

[faxon]

if you are trying to install windows on a raid partition you HAVE to install it on the partition or it wont work. one thing you can try do is making a .iso of your windows install disk and slipstreaming the driver into the install if you are having trouble doing it manually when installing. im sure someone here can explain how to do this, i havent tried it yet myself so im not going to be of any help getting it set up and good to go. as for managing partitions, i would honestly pay the $60 price tag for a license of norton partition magic 8. it is simply an amazing tool for managing drive partitions, and if you edit/redo your drive partitions regularly enough it is great, plus it includes a better drive defragmentor than the one in windows, and unlike the windows disk manager it can move and edit system partitions.

 

[DSF]

What are you hoping to gain from RAID 0?

 

[postmortemIA]

Originally posted by: Magihyren
Hey, this is my first time, that I tried raiding two drives together so please bare with me. I have the ASUS Rampage Formula mobo, and im using 2 Western Digital WD6400AAKS drives.

My problem that I have atm is how i "raided" my drives. I first change in the bios to the raid setting for the drives, then I configured them, in the raid menu where you hit crtl i, and raided the drives. But I couldn't install the windows vista os (i couldn't get the driver thing). So what I did next is I only partioned 75 GB from one drive, and then installed the os. Then after I installed i, i used the Intel Matrix Storage Console to create a raid volume from existing hard drive, and I guessed I set it to use 100% of the drive in raid. So supposedly I get like 596.1 Gb x2 = 1192.2 Gb to use. But from what i see after migration is only the 75 GB partion I made earlier. Is there anyway to do more partions besides the 75 gb, and also, how can I get access or use the rest of my hd? Thanks.

you did messy job.

look in disk management tool if there's only single drive, then expand its size from that tool.