SATARaid Controller Manual
12
Creating the Partitions
.
At this point, there should be one disk with “unallocated” partitions. This represents the
RAID Set.
1. Right-click on the partition of the DISK 1 (Section 2) on the Disk Management window
and click on “New Volume.” The “New Volume Wizard”
will appear as shown below.
Click “Next.
Note
: In Section 1, all disks should list the following: “Basic”, “<
Disk
Size
>” and “Online”. If your disk is listed as “Unknown” or
“Dynamic” rather than “Basic”, follow the instructions below to
change it to “Basic”:
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If the disk reports as “
Unknown
,” right-click on the disk (in SECTION
2) and click on “Write Signature”.
At this point, a window will appear with the disk in question (all
“Unknown” disks may appear in this window).
Make sure the box next to each disk is checked, then click “OK”.
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If a disk reports as “
Dynamic
,” right-click on SECTION 2 of that disk,
and click on “Return disk to Basic...” Within seconds the disk should
report as Basic.
Note
: In this section, our example system will include two 112 GB SATA
drives that have been configured in the BIOS RAID Utility. The
system will also contain an ATA drive (C:) that has already been
configured with an operating system.