- Create Raid 0 In Windows 10
- Software Raid 0 Windows 10
- Windows 10 Setup Raid 0
- Windows Raid 0
- Windows 10 Raid 1 Setup
This article describes the steps to establish a striped volume (RAID 0) in Windows Server 2003.
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Create Raid 0 In Windows 10
- There are two ways to do the RAID configuration; the easy way is to use EZ Tuning Wizard. First enter the UEFI BIOS, then press F11 to get in and simply go through the process. After creating the RAID, remember to select X4 Mode for best bandwidth support (varies by model).
- Output 2 01:00.0 RAID bus controller: Adaptec AAC-RAID (rev 09) output 3 02:00.0 RAID bus controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS 2208 Thunderbolt (rev 05) If you do not receive any output, like in the image below, it is an indication that the system is not identifying any RAID controller. Make sure that the controller is set up.
Original product version: Windows Server 2003
Original KB number: 323433
Summary
A striped volume (RAID 0) combines areas of free space from multiple hard disks (anywhere from 2 to 32) into one logical volume. Data that is written to a striped volume is interleaved to all disks at the same time instead of sequentially. Therefore, disk performance is the fastest on a RAID 0 volume as compared to any other type of disk configuration. Administrators prefer to use striped volumes when input/output (I/O) speed is important. Any file system, including FAT, FAT32, or NTFS, can be used on a striped volume.
Requirements
- There must be at least two hard disk drives. IDE, small computer system interface (SCSI), or mixed architecture is permissible.
- All disks involved in the striped volume must be dynamic disks.
- Each portion of the free space must be exactly the same (for example, the size and file system type).
How to set up the Disk Management system
Click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Computer Management.
Expand the Storage node.
Click Disk Management.
On the View menu, point to Top, and then click Disk List.
In the right pane, a column appears that lists the attributes of each disk in the system.
On the View menu, point to Bottom, and then click Graphical View.
A color-coded graphical view of the disks on the system is displayed.
The Disk Description pane (which is displayed in gray) is positioned on the left side of the volume description, which is displayed in color. The disk description contains information about each disk's disk number, whether it's a basic or dynamic configuration, its size, and its status (online or offline).
The volume descriptions are color-coded. They hold information about each volume, such as the drive letter (if assigned), whether the volume is allocated or unallocated, the partition or volume size, and the health status of the volume.
Requirements to make sure that disks are set up to support a striped volume
- Disks: A minimum of two disks are needed to support striping.
- Type: Any disks involved in striping must be dynamic. Conversion from basic to dynamic goes very quickly without data loss. After you complete the conversion procedure, you must restart the computer.
- Capacity: The striped volume can take the whole disk or as little as 50 megabytes (MB) for each disk.
- Unallocated space: Any disks that you want to upgrade to a dynamic disk must contain at least 1 MB of free space at the end of the disk for the upgrade to succeed. Disk Management automatically reserves this free space when it creates partitions or volumes on a disk, but disks with partitions or volumes that are created by other operating systems may not have this free space available.
- Status: The status of all disks involved in a striped volume must be online when you create the striped volume.
- Device Type: You can install striping on any dynamic disk even if there are mixed drive architectures on the system. For example, IDE, Enhanced IDE (EIDE), and SCSI drives can all be used in one striped volume.
How to upgrade to dynamic disks
If the disks that are going to be involved in the striped volume are already dynamic disks, proceed to the 'How to Convert to Striped Volume' section of this article.
Note
You must be logged on as an administrator or a member of the Administrators group to complete this procedure. If your computer is connected to a network, network policy settings may also prevent you from completing this procedure.
To upgrade a basic disk to a dynamic disk:
- Before you upgrade disks, quit any programs that are running on those disks.
- Right-click the gray Disk Description pane that is located to the left of the color-coded volume panes, and then click Upgrade to Dynamic Disk.
- If the second disk isn't a dynamic disk, follow steps 1 and 2 to upgrade it to a dynamic disk.
How to convert to striped volume
In this scenario, there are two disks on the computer, Disk 0 and Disk 1. Both disks are dynamic disks and have at least 1 gigabyte (GB) of free unallocated space on each disk for a total volume of 2 GB.
In the lower-right pane of the Disk Management tool, right-click the free, unallocated volume space on either disk, and then click Create Volume.
After the Create Volume Wizard starts, click Next.
Under Volume Type, click Striped Volume > Next.
In the left pane under Select Two or More Disks, a list is displayed that contains all disks that have enough free, unallocated space to participate in the striped volume.
In the right pane under Selected, the disk that you right-clicked in step 1 is displayed.
In the left pane under All Available Dynamic Disks, click the disk, and then click Add.
All disks that are displayed in the right pane are labeled Selected. View the bottom of the Select Disk dialog box under the Size label. The For All Selected Disks box displays the maximum size of the striped volume that you can make.
Note
The volume on each disk is the same size in the completed striped volume. For example, if you have 100 MB on the first disk, you have 100 MB on the second disk. Therefore, the total size of your combined volumes is double that of the smaller of the volumes on the two disks.
You can reduce the size of the volume by modifying the value in the Disk Size box. Keep in mind that on a system that has two disks, the total striped volume size is double the size that you enter. The Total Volume Size box under the right pane displays the actual size of the striped volume.
Click Next to advance to the Assign Drive Letter Path page of the wizard.
At this time, you may want to assign a drive letter to your striped volume (you can also do this at any other time). To do so, click Assign Drive Letter, and then enter an available drive letter.
Alternatively, you can click Do not assign drive letter or path. You can also click Mount this volume on an empty folder that supports drive paths. However, this selection is beyond the scope of this article.
After you enter a drive letter for your striped volume, click Next.
Click Format this partition with the following settings, and then follow these steps:
Enter the file system type.
Note that FAT32 or NTFS is acceptable.
Leave the default selection in the Allocation Unit Size box.
In the Volume Label box, you can keep the default New Volume label or you can type you own label.
At this time, you can click to select the Quick Format and File and Folder Compression check boxes. Or you can defer both of these tasks if you want.
Click Next, check your selection in the Summary window, and then click Finish.
The striped volumes are displayed on the two disks on your system. They have the same color code, the same drive letter (if you mapped the drive during the procedure), and they're both the same size.
Troubleshooting
- Don't mix hardware RAID 0 with software RAID 0.
- A striped volume can't hold the system or boot partition of a Windows Server 2003-based system.
- You can't extend or mirror striped volumes.
- There's no fault tolerance on a striped volume. This means that if one of the disks becomes damaged or no longer functions properly, the whole volume is lost.
Introduction: How to Setup a Raid 1 Using Windows XP
Software Raid 0 Windows 10
Im using this guide for myself too. Most of the time Im forgetting things. I may come back and update this if I miss a step.
There are different type of raid. Do most of us use them. This guide will only show you how to setup raid 1 mirror drives. Here you can find more info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID
What is a raid 1?
A RAID 1 setup protects data from a drive failure by simultaneously writing data to two hard drives a master drive and a backup (or mirror) drive. Since the second drive carries an exact copy of the first, it provides no usable storage capacity. RAID 1 offers no gain in drive performance.
I have wuploadork with different Raids. I only work with them in server with different company I go work for.
I be using Window XP on this guide. I will post other guide for vista/windows 7.
NOTE: Some motherboard has a bulit in raid. Go to your bios and On Chip ATA Devices. If you have the option Raid Mode. Go to your manufacturer’s website get the drivers for the raid and save them to a floppy disk. Than you don't have to spent money on a raid card.
The things you need to start
* Make sure your computer case can support two drives and at least one pci or pci-e slot
* Floppy Disk- If you have a extranl floppy disk that should work. Windows installation won't install the drivers from an optical drive. (you don't have to worry on Windows Vista or 7 you can use usb drive).
*RAID controller- If your mother doesn't have a built in raid. You need to purchase one that support Raid 1. Make sure you have at least one pci slot or if you have pci-e slot you can use it. Make sure what you buying.
* Two Hard Drive- I would recommed Sata the same model and size. Make sure you have two sata cable.
Step 1: Installing the Raid Controller
When purchase raid controller it come with a floppy disk or cd. If it came with cd. You must copy the files from the cd to the root of the floppy disk.
Install the raid controller into the pci slot or pci-e slot. Connect the sata cable ends to the two sata port of the raid controller. The other ends go to the two hard drives you going to install.
If your motherboard has a built in raid. You need to go to your manufacturer’s website and download the drivers for the raid. save them to a floppy disk. Make sure you read the manual to enable the raid.
For built in raid read your manuel to setup the drives.
Step 2: Hard Drives
Im going to replace two Samsung 160Gb hard drive they went bad.
Im going to install two Seagate 250GB each.
If you wondering if I had back up the data. Yes I did just the data. Im going to install Windows from new that you can see the steps. Beside it was showing error on Windows. Didn’t wanna make an image and image it back to the new drive and fight with it repairing it.
Step 3: Installing the Hard Drive in the Case
Install two hard into their slot. Connect the power and sata cable raid controller.
Step 4: While in the Bios
Just turn on the computer and keep an eye on the sceen you should see a command line with sata raid. To enter the menu to the raid card. You need to carefully look what key to press like my was Ctrl+A other many have different key to press.
Step 5: Within the Raid Menu
You should be in the menu of the raid controller
1. Disk utilities and make sure you see the two hard drives.
2. Select the drives to create array. Pick 00 and last 01
3. Array Properties. Array Type You will have many Raid options to choose from. In this guide we going to use Raid 1 Mirror.
4. Once you select the raid your ready to built. Sometime gave you option to built quick. You can but how can you be sure if the drives are good.
5. As you can see it building already. It may take hours to finish mirror the drive. but you don't have to wait for it. You can start installing Windows. Just exit out of the configure.
Windows 10 Setup Raid 0
Step 6: Getting the Drivers
Now have your Windows cd and Floppy disk ready.
Insert the cd ( If your computer doesn't have the option to select what you wanna boot frist than you need to go within the bios and boot option and tell it to boot from cd drive frist).
Boot from Cd once Windows setup begain insert the floppy disk.
1.Look at the bottom screen when you see the blue windows setup. Look for F6 and press few time to load the drives.
2. If you press F6. It will read the floppy disk and if you have the correct drivers gave you an option to select the driver you wanna use. Press Enter.
3. Once the drivers is load. It will gave you an option. If you sure you have the right drivers. Press S.
Step 7: Formating the Drive
1. Welcome to setup. Press Enter to enter the setup Windows.
2. Your goign to create a partition.
3. Once you partition. Your ready to setup Windows xp on the selected item.
4. This one is up to you if you think the drives are good than I would go with Quick Format.
5. It will begain formatting the hard drive.
Step 8: Last Step Installing Windows
1.This is the last step installing Windows. You will still need to stay in front of the computer. May ask you to name the computer. On the drivers it may tell you about the drivers for the raid just say yes.
2. Windows Xp loading.
3. As you can see now Windows Xp is already install. You notice you only see one drive. The other drive is in mirror.
Well that all with Raids
Before installing any program or updates. I would recommend going to the Raid controller utility and check the building status and let it finish.
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