Raid Arrays

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Hey
I have just built my first computer and everything was working fin
untill I installed my second drive. The drive was just a normal slav
with files on it from my old computer. For some reason when I inserte
the drive, the bios detected as the correct drive name but tried t
create an array with the first drive which limited the capicity, so
took out the slave booted to windows flashed the bios with the newes
firmware disabled raid arrays and restarted my computer with th
slave attached, now it boots fine but it detects the slave to hav
the smaller capacity as it did in the raid and detects it a
unformatted as if its still in the raid
Is there anyway I can retain information and get it working at ful
capacity
motherboard is GA-K8VM800M (Rev 1.x
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products...view.aspx?ProductID=1810&ModelName=GA-K8VM800
thanx for any help in advanc
 
iamollie said:
motherboard is GA-K8VM800M (Rev 1.x)
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products...iew.aspx?ProductID=1810&ModelName=GA-K8VM800M
thanx for any help in advance
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maybe it is reading a partition on there
also consider the format fat32 or ntfs

also consider that the drive has more space than you knew about

maybe the space it is recognizing is a space you never knew about

assume that your files will remain in tact, don't del any partitions

if I could get my desktop up, with that drive being read in any
capacity
I'd bring it up, run chkdisk on it...
and possibly further other disk utilities.

good lucks
 
Sounds like the usual SATA thing where you have put another
drive on the primary IDE connector, and so the SATA is pushed
to RAID status. Read my other post on this ... I'm not kidding
one bit about don't put a drive on IDE 0, if you are using a SATA
as your boot drive.

johns
 
johns said:
Sounds like the usual SATA thing where you have put another
drive on the primary IDE connector, and so the SATA is pushed
to RAID status. Read my other post on this ... I'm not kidding
one bit about don't put a drive on IDE 0, if you are using a SATA
as your boot drive.

johns
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What about it? I would like to read more. I have a PATA drive on DISK0
while my boot SATA system C: drive is on DISK 2 in Diak Manager. Is that the
same as IDE?
 
I haven't worked with a PATA drive, yet, so I don't know.
Just get on the phone to your mobo manufacturer tech
support and ask them if that setup is proper. Also ask
if the "drivers" are autodetected on your mobo, or do
you need to use the floppy with RAID drivers, and
disable the RAID in the mobo BIOS. Done right, you
will run at top speed. Done wrong, you will generate
conflicts that will make your system seem weird when
trying certain operations .. esp games and multimedia.

johns
 
You know all this stuff about computers and drives yet you have not worked
with a PATA drive yet? You don't know what PATA means? PATA = Paralell ATA =
IDE.
 
johns said:
I haven't worked with a PATA drive, yet, so I don't know.
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So much for ANY credibility you may have previously had...

Can you point us to ANY documentation of your claim that a SATA boot drive
will not co-exist with a device on the primary IDE channel? I didn't think
so...
 
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