[Urgent Help Please!] Raid 0 between 2 SSDs not working (pics)

[Remmib]

Hey guys...appreciate any help I can get with this annoying problem.

So I just formatted my two Crucial M4 drives (one 64GB and one 128GB). I want to combine them in Raid 0 so that I can have a ~180GB SSD drive so that I have more room for games. Otherwise the 64GB drive is pretty useless to me.

I just installed Windows on my OCZ SSD 256GB (I like to have two copies of windows on different drives - one for work and one for gaming), then I went into the bios to switch from AHCI mode to RAID mode.

So here is what I did:

I selected my drives that I wanted to make into Raid 0:

And after that I thought it was weird that the Capacity only said 119.2GB:

So I changed it manually....59.6GB + 119.2GB = 178.8GB (which is what I entered below)

I pressed confirm to create the Raid and it gave me this error:
(Not enough capacity to create volume.)

Here is the screen from my bios:

I have no idea what is going wrong here...please help me.

 

[Remmib]

No. Right-click right on "Disk 0" and you should have an option to change to Dynamic Disk.

Sorry I'm an idiot, heh... Thanks for putting up with me.

I've done what you told me, but still the problem persists where I am not allowed to go past the actual creation of the 'new spanned volume'

 

[cball1311]

ok. now convert Disk 1 to dynamic and see if you can select it. Then create a new partition and give it a drive letter and all the rest. You should have one drive with ~180 GB.

 

[Remmib]

ok. now convert Disk 1 to dynamic and see if you can select it. Then create a new partition and give it a drive letter and all the rest. You should have one drive with ~180 GB.

Thanks for being patient and spelling it all out for me man, you're awesome. I learned something!

Great success!

Have a good weekend man .

 

[cball1311]

Now reboot and make sure everything comes up right.

 

[Remmib]

Now reboot and make sure everything comes up right.

Yep, everything is dandy.

 

[cball1311]

Glad I could help. Happy Computing.

 

[Remmib]

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[Remmib]

Glad I could help. Happy Computing.

Just tried to install Windows from the desktop of my OCZ 256GB 'Work' drive and get this error:

The error popped up before I even got to the part where it asked me where I want to install it.

So now my friend just told me that I can't do a spanned volume (which he said is a 'software raid') on drive on which I want to install windows....

Is this real life?

Back to square one.

 

[cball1311]

Because your Work drive H: does not have any unallocated space. You need an empty partition to install windows. Shrink the current partition to half the size or what suits your needs(You might need this software to do it http://www.partition-tool.com/download.htm). Then, there should be left over unallocated space for you to install Windows on H:

 

[Remmib]

Because your Work drive H: does not have any unallocated space. You need an empty partition to install windows. Shrink the current partition to half the size or what suits your needs(You might need this software to do it http://www.partition-tool.com/download.htm). Then, there should be left over unallocated space for you to install Windows on H:

I think I am going to try another solution.

But I am stuck here, I cannot get my Disk 1 to change back to a 'basic' drive. It is stuck on 'dynamic':

Any ideas on how to get it back to basic?

*edit* working on a solution with a friend, will post back here if I am unsuccessful/need more help.

 

[cball1311]

Changing back is not going to be easy because you have that system partition on their which would have to be erased which could mess up your boot.

 

[Remmib]

Changing back is not going to be easy because you have that system partition on their which would have to be erased which could mess up your boot.

Ughhhh, after a couple hours of failed solutions I finally found this - http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/26829-convert-dynamic-disk-basic-disk.html - solution 2 let me switch it back from Dynamic to Basic.

 

[cball1311]

How much space do you have available on H drive. If you have at least half of the drive empty, use the software that I suggested earlier in the thread to shrink the volume to half the total size of the HDD. It will automatically make unallocated space on the drive and you can install Windows to the unallocated space. Leave your drives as dynamic disks with a spanned volume and everything will be fine.