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    Hello everybody,

    I have a quick question about RAID volumes, and forgive me but I'm a total noob when it comes to RAID.

    I originally had a 1.5TB drive with everything, then I installed two 750GB drives in raid0 which worked fine. Both the raid0 array and the 1.5TB storage drive showed up in windows explorer as discreet drives. But then I installed two 500GB drives in a raid1 array (set up through the Intel Matrix raid driver like the other array) so that I could have mirrored copies for my more important files. However, this new array does not show up in window explorer. When I first boot to windows 7 desktop there is a message from the taskbar stating that data protection is enabled and functioning properly and when I click it it opens up the Intel software which shows all my drives as they were set up. Yet still no drive volume in explorer. In the way I have this set up, is this new array just mirroring my other array?

    By the way, the OS is on the two 750GB drives in raid0
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    On board RAID or a separate card? I'm thinking you can't duplex (if that's the term I am looking for) off of one source.
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    Try going: Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Storage

    It most likely just needs to be formatted for windows.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Trace View Post
    Try going: Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Storage

    It most likely just needs to be formatted for windows.
    Yep, that was it. It never occurred to me because I didn't need to do this for any of the other drives. Thanks!
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    That'll be infinity REP please jk
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    Quote Originally Posted by jdbnsn View Post
    Yep, that was it. It never occurred to me because I didn't need to do this for any of the other drives. Thanks!
    That would be because Windows, in all its randomness decides to format the OS drive before install

    I had the same problem when I first put my RAID together. I went through checking the drives one by one, looking in the RAID setup program in BIOS, everything. But because it wasnt my OS drive, Windows had no idea. They should add a message or something "Hey, I've noticed you have a massive drive sitting here unformatted and unused. Maybe you would like to use it?"
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