I didn't have to load any special RAID drivers so that was nice. Windows 7 could only be installed on Disk0 so I selected that and installed the OS the setup partitioned it automatically. It looked ok. I then went and initialized the other volume Disk1 in Disk Management. So I could then create one or more partition in the "left" Unallocated space and one or more partitions in the "right" Unallocated space.
The difference is that I could not have one single 2. And don't be fooled, even though I did initialize this disk as MBR and created multiple partitions smaller than 2 TB on it even set active , I could NOT install windows on the partition on this drive. I then powered off the PC and removed one of the drives.
Once in Windows I hot-plugged the drive back. The system recognized it and also re-inserted it into the RAID array as a member and then started the rebuild process. This is also one thing as I mentioned before where Intel confuses the user with the options.
I then wanted to add another 1TB drive to this array so that I could then extend Volume1 to cover all the newly added space. I would expect this option would be available if I right-clicked on the array name in IMSM but it wasn't. That is kind of counter-intuitive. I then selected the drive to add and clicked Finish.
The drive was then added to the array containing my two volumes. The 50 GB Volume0 started migrating immediately only spre I'm using 3 identical gig HD.
Capacity expansion is not my concern although with 4 gig HD I'm right at 2tb. My main concern is how to add the drive without messing up my system. Can you give some advice or point me to a forum, FAQ, manual or some resource to learn how to add the 4th drive?
The reason that both volumes expand themselves is the same reason that you cannot have a mirror and a raid 5 on the same set of disks. The raid volumes have to "line up" or use the same number of disks.
Why this is, I do not know. But, its 25 gigs of space you did not have before. I chose this config because I planned on building another machine with just the RAID having a small boot and a huge data volume, and this was essentially a test to see if I could actually use this config and expand it when more space was needed.
But I don't particularly care that Volume0 will get expanded because it's small and only gets a tiny portion of the extra expansion space. Anyways, the MSM started chugging away on expanding rebuilding, actually Volume0, because, I guess, that volume was created first. Instead of moving on to Volume1, the MSM reported that it was done and wanted to reboot for the changes to be seen properly. The system came up, and much to my suprise started rebuilding Volume Indeed, the 3 disks in the array were listed as status "Incompatible" during POST, and even worse, the small bootable volume would no longer boot.
You probably want to keep you volume sizes under 2TB. You may also want to upgrade to the latest RST 9. However, the ability to expand an array containing two volumes still does not work. Like on the ASUS board, an attempt to expand an array with two volumes results in the first volume migrating correctly and then the second volume not being migrated at all, although the second volume gets marked with the new size; this then results on the next boot in Windows crashing because no migration occcured and the second volume being given a size that is double its real capacity.
Then Windows boots again and tries to rebuild the second volume as if it actually had this wrong size it would be nice to magically have twice the storage. You will have to install the operating system to restore the backup, if it was created by Windows. I am attempting to use the onboard ICH10r controller but it seems to be fubar. How do I get this thing to work? This thread is locked.
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It was actually not that difficult. I read hundreds of posts on multiple forums and was never able to find a solution, so I figured it out myself. Below are the steps to accomplish the task. Prerequisites: You must have the hard drives you will be using in your RAID, a different hard drive with your current Windows 7 installation, and an external hard drive for an OS image DVDs or Blu-Rays would work, but much more time consuming. In the Windows start menu search box type "regedit" without the quotes then right click the entry and click "Run as Administrator" then enter your user credentials for the UAC prompt then click yes to open regedit.
In the window that opens change the hexadecimal value to "0" and click OK. Close regedit click "File" at the top left and click "Exit". Restart your computer. Save settings and exit BIOS. A prompt will tell you that your computer needs to restart.
After booting up you should receive no hardware installation prompts. If you do, restart again. Once there are no hardware installation prompts or restart notifications. Shut down your computer. Save BIOS settings and exit. You should now have a RAID controller that requires drivers. Install your RAID drivers. Restart computer. Verify that your computer boots up and all hardware is installed and there are no prompts to restart.
If asked to restart again, restart computer. Check the device manager and verify that everything is installed properly and functioning. Shut down the computer. Power on computer and enter the BIOS. Save changes and exit BIOS. Create your RAID. Save changes and exit. If cloning drive follow this step and skip the next step.
After cloning drive, reboot computer. Using your favorite image creating software I use Acronis or Ghost , create an image of your Windows 7 partition and restore the image to the desired partition on your newly created RAID. Reboot computer.
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