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06-23-2008, 01:47 PM
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I have Vista home premium installed on my Toshiba Qosmio G35-AV600 laptop. I have two 80GB hard drives with C:\ setup as a RAID drive. After installing Vista the two drives show up as C:\ and E:\ whereas in XP Service Pack 3 they showed up as one spanned volume C:\ totalling 160GB. This is the way I want it to show up in Vista. My question then is how do I achieve this? My second hard drive was empty so I reformatted drive E:\ thinking that I would be given the option to create a spanned volume, but it is greyed out . . . When I open my Toshiba RAID console, it shows two hard drives but Drive C:\ or Disk 0 is listed as RAID whereas drive E:\ or Disk 1 is listed as "JBOD (Not RAID)". I'm at a loss as to how to fix this and was also wondering if it is best to just leave it as it is. What are the advantages/disadvantages of setting up one RAID spanned drive? Thanks, in advance, for any help you can give!  Elizabeth       |
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06-23-2008, 08:55 PM
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| It's probably because you need a RAID driver for Vista which is digitally signed. Check the manufacturers website and if that doesnt work post back. Spanned drives are faster... but you lose all your data if it corrupts. crabby |
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06-23-2008, 11:06 PM
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Yeah, I have the latest RAID drivers for my computer. I also have the Toshiba RAID utility but it does little and there is NO documentation for it! I am really thinking of leaving it as it is since it is much safer with two separate volumes -- I don't want to lose all my information if one of the drives crashes. . . I have ordered a Seagate - FreeAgent 60 160MB external hard drive and I plan to use it as a backup when I get it. How do I go about making my 2nd hard disk bootable -- but do I really need to because I know the Vista DVD is bootable . . . Your thoughts would be greatly appreciated! Elizabeth |
RAID drivers 
Yes, that was what i was afraid of . . . 
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