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3. Initializing NVRAID Array Disks

 

Now that the two-disk array has been created, it needs to be partitioned  

 and 

formatted. 

 

1. Click on Start

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Settings

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Control Panel. 

 

2. Double click on Administrative Tools. 

 

3. Double click on Computer Management. 

 

4. Click on Disk Management. The following screen is displayed. 

Summary of Contents for 939NF4G-SATA2

Page 1: ...D After you finish the driver installation you can create delete or rebuild any RAID array Please enter NVRAIDMAN by clicking on Start Programs NVIDIA Corporation Mediashield Mediashield There is also...

Page 2: ...k up to the maximum supported number of disks in the system To create a two disk Striped Array do the following 1 Go to the system BIOS and make sure that the drives that you want to use are RAID enab...

Page 3: ...3 5 Click the RAID Mode list arrow and select Striping and leave the Stripe Size with its default value as shown in the following screen shot 4 Click Next and the following screen shot will appear...

Page 4: ...6 Click Next and the following screen shot will appear 7 Select the two disks that you want to include in the stripe set To create a striped array with more disks select additional disks from the lis...

Page 5: ...5 8 Click Next and the following screen shot will appear 9 Click Finish and the following screen shot will appear The RAID 0 is created successfully...

Page 6: ...written to both two drives and if one drive fails then data can be recovered from the other drive To create a Mirrored Array do the following 1 Go to the system BIOS and make sure that the drives that...

Page 7: ...7 3 Click Next and the following screen shot will appear 4 Click Next and the following screen shot will appear KTTQTKPI CTTC TGSWKTGU HTGG JCTF FKUMU...

Page 8: ...8 5 Select the two drives that you want to use in the Mirrored array 6 Click Next and the following screen shot will appear KTTQTKPI CTTC TGSWKTGU HTGG JCTF FKUMU...

Page 9: ...ou wish to preserve Do not select a disk if you do not want to rebuild the array at this time 8 Click Next and the following screen shot appears 9 Click Finish If you selected a disk to preserve in st...

Page 10: ...uch an array To create a Spanning Array do the following 1 Go to the system BIOS and make sure that the drives that you want to use are RAID enabled 2 Boot to Windows and launch the NVRAIDMAN applicat...

Page 11: ...list arrow and select Spanning while leaving the Stripe Size set to its default value as shown in the following screen shot 5 Click Next and the following screen shot will appear 5RCPPKPI CTTC TGSWKTG...

Page 12: ...12 6 Select the two drives that you want to use in the Spanned array 7 Click Next and the following screen shot will appear 5RCPPKPI CTTC TGSWKTGU QT OQTG HTGG JCTF FKUMU...

Page 13: ...13 8 Click Finish and the following screen shot will appear A Spanned Array has been created...

Page 14: ...two disk array has been created it needs to be partitioned and formatted 1 Click on Start Settings Control Panel 2 Double click on Administrative Tools 3 Double click on Computer Management 4 Click on...

Page 15: ...that was created earlier To create a partition on it right click on the Unallocated partition and select New Partition 6 Follow the Wizard for setting up and formatting the partition Once that is done...

Page 16: ...AIDMAN application and right click on the RAID array that you want to delete assuming that you have a RAID array already created as shown in the following screen shot The above screen shot shows that...

Page 17: ...following screen shot will appear 3 Click Finish and the array will be deleted and the following screen shot will appear showing all the free disks A similar process can be applied to delete any array...

Page 18: ...ll data is copied from one hard drive to another and then the data is synchronized between the two hard drives After creating a mirrored array you can rebuild the array using the following steps 1 Go...

Page 19: ...19 3 From the popup menu click Rebuild Array The NVIDIA Rebuild Array Wizard appears 4 Click Next The Disk Selection page appears...

Page 20: ...kground The rebuilding process takes some time to complete and occurs in the background so as not to affect the performance of the system Rebuilding Applies Only to RAID 1 Rebuilding an array works on...

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