Setting up Software Raid in Win 2003

[Black Sheep]

Hi
Having trouble setting up a striped set in Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition.
I have 2 sata Samsung 320gb F4 spinpoint HDDs, core i5 processor, intel dh55hc motherboard and 4gb mem.
I have converted both disks to dynamic.
All options are grayed out when selecting new volume in disk management console on the second hdd.
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Any ideas?

 

[kingrob]

Have you created a new volume on the first hard drive?

Then create a new volume on second hard drive, hold in Shift (I think), select both volumes and create a stripe set.

 

[The_Unbeliever]

You cannot add the C: drive to a striped set IIRC.

If you had C:, D: and E: (three HDD's) then you can add D: and E: to a striped set to create drive D:

Another way to get the two to stripe/mirror is to get the RAID controller to do it without any software RAID setups.

 

[Coza]

Make sure that the mirrored drive is not slightly smaller than the primary disk. Even identical disks can vary by a few kb.