Serial ATA RAID User’s Guide
Creating Partitions
In
SECTION 2
, the disk order corresponds directly to the order the Sets
appear in the BIOS. Therefore, the first Unallocated Partition represents Set
1, and so on.
1. At this point, there should be three disks with Unallocated partitions.
Right- click on the partition of the first disk and click on “Create Partition”.
The “Create Partition Wizard” should appear.
1. The first window is an introductory window to the Wizard. Click
Next
.
2.
The second window designates the partition as a primary partition.
Click
Next
.
3. The third window designates the partition size. Since this is a
Striped RAID set, utilizing 2 disk drives, the size of the partition
should be approximately double the size of a single disk drive
(assuming all disks are of identical size). Click
Next
.
4.
The fourth window designates the drive letter of the partition.
5.
The fifth window allows the user to label the volume name, and
choose the type of formatting to take place upon the creation of the
partition. Choose which ever drive letter is desired (the lowest
possible value is automatically entered), name the volume
whatever is desired (suggestions being something generic such as
STRIPED SET or something specific to use such as FINANCIAL,
CRITICAL, MISCELLANEOUS, etc.) then check the box next to
“quick format”. Click
Next
.
6.
The sixth window is a summary window listing all of the selections
made. lick
Finish
.
Depending on the size of the disk drive(s) included in the partition, the
partition should change from “Unallocated” to “Healthy” with its name and
drive letter reported as well in a matter of minutes or less. Do not attempt to
create a partition for the next disk until the disk currently being formatted is
complete and reports
Healthy
.
Also note that once the disk reports Healthy, it appears in the listing in
SECTION 1
with all of its pertinent information as well.
2. Repeat this procedure for the partition of the second and third disk.
3. Close the Data Management window by clicking on the small boxed “X” in
the top right corner of the window.
4. Click on the “My Computer” icon on the Desktop. The three new drives
should now be visible and properly named. Data may now be stored to
each of these disks if desired.
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