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Hi all,

I'm having a problem I hope you can shed some light on. I have Windows XP
w/SP2 running from a 74Gb S-ATA WD Raptor. As it refuses to let me install
my older IBM deskstars as well I have installed a second Raptor.
The problem is that although in BOOT up, when it shows the Silicon RAID
screen it acknowledges that there are 2 drivs in there, the second drive
does not show up in Windows.

I appear to have no way to format it or access it at all.

Can anyone help?

Thanks.
 
Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus (More info?)

Does it show up in drive manager?


"Vormulac" <tristanluscombe@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9569DAAEFB7AEtristanluscombehotma@194.117.143.38...
> Hi all,
>
> I'm having a problem I hope you can shed some light on. I have Windows XP
> w/SP2 running from a 74Gb S-ATA WD Raptor. As it refuses to let me install
> my older IBM deskstars as well I have installed a second Raptor.
> The problem is that although in BOOT up, when it shows the Silicon RAID
> screen it acknowledges that there are 2 drivs in there, the second drive
> does not show up in Windows.
>
> I appear to have no way to format it or access it at all.
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> Thanks.
 
Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus (More info?)

Yes, under 'Disk Drives' in Device Manager there are two identical drives
listed.

"DDStech" <here@noneya.biz> wrote in
news:cfm3d.7019$mb6.2417@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net:

> Does it show up in drive manager?
>
>
 
Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus (More info?)

Can you provide more information? No options to create or dlelete
partitions? Basic? Dynamic? NTFS, FAT32?


"Vormulac" <tristanluscombe@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9569DEF7891E0tristanluscombehotma@194.117.143.38...
> Yes, under 'Disk Drives' in Device Manager there are two identical drives
> listed.
>
> "DDStech" <here@noneya.biz> wrote in
> news:cfm3d.7019$mb6.2417@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net:
>
>> Does it show up in drive manager?
>>
>>
 
Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus (More info?)

There's no information of that nature there, just the usual box you
would expect to see in Device Manager saying the device is working
properly, there are following tabs available:
General,

Policies (no selectable options),

Volumes, which after pressing the 'Populate' button provides the
following data;
disk - Disk1,
type - Unknown
status - Not Initialized
partition style - Not Applicable
capacity - 70904 MB
unallocated space - 70904 MB
reserved space - 0 MB

SCSI Properties, with two unchecked boxes 'Disble tagged queuing' and
'Disable synchronous tranfsers',

Driver (all the usual Driver Details and Roll BAck buttons,

Details, a huge drop down menu of details about the device such as
'Device Instance Id' SCSI\DISK&VEN_WDC_WD74&PROD_0GD-00FLA0&REV_21.0\5&
82F5F2C&0&100 - but nothing really useful.

I would assume that this drive needs formatting or something of that
nature, as it seems that Windows is 'seeing' it alright, but I don't
know how. When I went into the Silicon RAID setup during boot-up, there
was the option to perform a 'low level format', but there didn't appear
to be any way to select which one of the 2 drives to format - not
useful!




"DDStech" <here@noneya.biz> wrote in
news:4Am3d.6807$n16.4297@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net:

> Can you provide more information? No options to create or dlelete
> partitions? Basic? Dynamic? NTFS, FAT32?
>
 
Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus (More info?)

Ah, now I understand. If you right click on "my computer", then select
"manage", there is a MMC called "Disk Management" in the left hand column.
If you select this, it will allow you to partition and format your drives.


"Vormulac" <tristanluscombe@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9569EAC99A45tristanluscombehotma@194.117.143.37...
> There's no information of that nature there, just the usual box you
> would expect to see in Device Manager saying the device is working
> properly, there are following tabs available:
> General,
>
> Policies (no selectable options),
>
> Volumes, which after pressing the 'Populate' button provides the
> following data;
> disk - Disk1,
> type - Unknown
> status - Not Initialized
> partition style - Not Applicable
> capacity - 70904 MB
> unallocated space - 70904 MB
> reserved space - 0 MB
>
> SCSI Properties, with two unchecked boxes 'Disble tagged queuing' and
> 'Disable synchronous tranfsers',
>
> Driver (all the usual Driver Details and Roll BAck buttons,
>
> Details, a huge drop down menu of details about the device such as
> 'Device Instance Id' SCSI\DISK&VEN_WDC_WD74&PROD_0GD-00FLA0&REV_21.0\5&
> 82F5F2C&0&100 - but nothing really useful.
>
> I would assume that this drive needs formatting or something of that
> nature, as it seems that Windows is 'seeing' it alright, but I don't
> know how. When I went into the Silicon RAID setup during boot-up, there
> was the option to perform a 'low level format', but there didn't appear
> to be any way to select which one of the 2 drives to format - not
> useful!
>
>
>
>
> "DDStech" <here@noneya.biz> wrote in
> news:4Am3d.6807$n16.4297@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net:
>
>> Can you provide more information? No options to create or dlelete
>> partitions? Basic? Dynamic? NTFS, FAT32?
>>
 
Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus (More info?)

My Raptor is coming Tuesday, how is it?


"Vormulac" <tristanluscombe@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9569DAAEFB7AEtristanluscombehotma@194.117.143.38...
> Hi all,
>
> I'm having a problem I hope you can shed some light on. I have Windows XP
> w/SP2 running from a 74Gb S-ATA WD Raptor. As it refuses to let me install
> my older IBM deskstars as well I have installed a second Raptor.
> The problem is that although in BOOT up, when it shows the Silicon RAID
> screen it acknowledges that there are 2 drivs in there, the second drive
> does not show up in Windows.
>
> I appear to have no way to format it or access it at all.
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> Thanks.
 
Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus (More info?)

An outstanding drive, very fast. I definitely recommend it! :)

"DDStech" <here@noneya.biz> wrote in
news😛Mp3d.7020$n16.5147@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net:

> My Raptor is coming Tuesday, how is it?
>
>
 
Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus (More info?)

Ah-ha, it's me being thick!

Sir, you are a gent and a scholar, my second Raptor is formatting as we
speak.

Thank you very much for your help :) I hope you're as happy with your
Raptor as I have been with mine.



"DDStech" <here@noneya.biz> wrote in
news:xCn3d.7068$mb6.4921@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net:

> Ah, now I understand. If you right click on "my computer", then select
> "manage", there is a MMC called "Disk Management" in the left hand
> column. If you select this, it will allow you to partition and format
> your drives.
>
>
 
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