It's Arrived!

chat_to_rich · Post by **chat_to_rich** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 9:03 pm

Please could you post a screen shot. I'm not at my machine that has the RAID array at the moment, so this is all from memory.

thescruff · Post by **thescruff** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 9:08 pm

An initialize disk box has drop down

Do I want MBR or GPT

thats master boot record or guid partition table

chat_to_rich · Post by **chat_to_rich** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 9:08 pm

chat_to_rich · Post by **chat_to_rich** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 9:09 pm

FYI GPT supports volumes over 2TB, so is worth having for future expansion etc.

chat_to_rich · Post by **chat_to_rich** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 9:11 pm

When you create the partion choose quick format. Label the drive as RAID or something obvious.

thescruff · Post by **thescruff** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 9:12 pm

Did that and pressed ok.

Now got system 0 ---system reserved.

Disk 1

thescruff · Post by **thescruff** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 9:15 pm

Where/how do I partition the disk

chat_to_rich · Post by **chat_to_rich** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 9:15 pm

You should see a black bar for the new drive. Right click and choose new simple volume. Go through the wizard, assign a drive letter and quick format. We may need to finish this tomorrow. Hope that's ok.

chat_to_rich · Post by **chat_to_rich** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 9:22 pm

Just to be clear, the above instructions are still within Disk Management.

thescruff · Post by **thescruff** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 9:23 pm

You can finish tomorrow if you wish.

Called itself drive D,

New volume (D) is now showing in the top below C

thescruff · Post by **thescruff** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 9:25 pm

chat_to_rich wrote:Just to be clear, the above instructions are still within Disk Management.

No good telling me after I done it

Drive D say Healthy (primary Partition)

chat_to_rich · Post by **chat_to_rich** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 9:25 pm

Sounds like it's all done - well done!

If you look in Computer you should now see D, which is your RAID drive. Tomorrow I'll post a screenshot for you to compare against so we can be sure it's all setup correctly. Then we can plugin your spare disk and start moving over your files.

thescruff · Post by **thescruff** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 9:29 pm

Got a drop down box to say view files in windows explorer. and it shows as new volume 1.81TB

I assume I can close all the open bits now.

thescruff · Post by **thescruff** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 9:32 pm

This post is on the new computer so it still works.

Thanks again Rich.

See you some when tomorrow

chat_to_rich · Post by **chat_to_rich** » Wed Jul 20, 2011 7:57 am

Please can you post a screenshot of the Intel Matrix Storage Manager, like the one I've attached to this post. Please can you also post a screenshot of the drives that are visible when you click Start -> Computer. I want to check that everything's setup correctly before we continue.

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