| Subject: Setting Up a Spanned Volume |
| Group: microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup |
| Date: 6/23/2008 5:29:01 AM |
| From: =?Utf-8?B?ZWphbWVz?= [Email Address Protection] |
I have Vista home premium installed on my Toshiba Qosmio G35-AV600 laptop. I have two 80GB hard drives with C:\ setup as a RAID drive. After installing Vista the two drives show up as C:\ and E:\ whereas in XP Service Pack 3 they showed up as one spanned volume C:\ totalling 160GB. This is the way I want it to show up in Vista. My question then is how do I achieve this? My second hard drive was empty so I reformatted drive E:\ thinking that I would be given the option to create a spanned volume, but it is greyed out . . . When I open my Toshiba RAID console, it shows two hard drives but Drive C:\ or Disk 0 is listed as RAID whereas drive E:\ or Disk 1 is listed as "JBOD (Not RAID)". I'm at a loss as to how to fix this and was also wondering if it is best to just leave it as it is. What are the advantages/disadvantages of setting up one RAID spanned drive? Thanks, in advance, for any help you can give! -- Elizabeth James |
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| Subject: Re: Setting Up a Spanned Volume |
| Group: microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup |
| Date: 6/23/2008 7:50:44 AM |
| From: "DL" [Email Address Protection] |
If you set up a stripe array, you will have to do this from scratch, ie a new installation. If one hd fails in the array you will lose all files ie everything on the drives. You have to set up the array via the raid bios consol. For a stripe array, you then install your o/s and programms. "ejames" <ejames6342@aol.com(donotspam)> wrote in message news:722FC092-A0D1-40BD-A177-6898C555EF43@microsoft.com... >I have Vista home premium installed on my Toshiba Qosmio G35-AV600 laptop. >I > have two 80GB hard drives with C:\ setup as a RAID drive. > > After installing Vista the two drives show up as C:\ and E:\ whereas in XP > Service Pack 3 they showed up as one spanned volume C:\ totalling 160GB. > This > is the way I want it to show up in Vista. My question then is how do I > achieve this? My second hard drive was empty so I reformatted drive E:\ > thinking that I would be given the option to create a spanned volume, but > it > is greyed out . . . When I open my Toshiba RAID console, it shows two hard > drives but Drive C:\ or Disk 0 is listed as RAID whereas drive E:\ or Disk > 1 > is listed as "JBOD (Not RAID)". > > I'm at a loss as to how to fix this and was also wondering if it is best > to > just leave it as it is. What are the advantages/disadvantages of setting > up > one RAID spanned drive? > > Thanks, in advance, for any help you can give! > > -- > Elizabeth James |
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