Adding A raid drive to an existing windows installation?

Im trying to add 2 drives in a mirrored raid configuration to my system. I've installed windows onto both of them. I did this to format the drives because I couldnt access them from windows on the other drive. Anyway I installed windows on the raid drive using the raid drivers and I can access my main hard drive from inside the raid windows installation but I cant access the raid drive from my main windows installation.


Ive installed the raid driver through windows device manager and it still wont let me access files on the raided drive.

I get this error "D:\ is not accessible. The File or Directory is currupted and unreadable"

 

I can't really understand what you're saying about installing Windows on the drives...But basically it sounds like the RAID isn't properly built. Rebuild it using an in-Windows utility if you want a software RAID.

Having said that, is there a reason you're not using a hardware RAID?

 

it is hardware raid.

I thaught that I coulndt see the raid drive because wasnt formatted, and the only way I could think to format it was to install windows on it with the raid drivers. Did this, booted up fine, I could even access my MAIN hard drive from this windows installation.

Now, from my MAIN windows installation I can see the RAID drive but I cant access it, getting the error I mentioned above.

 

any takers?

 

forgive me for bumping this thread but I would really like some help with the matter

 

Errrmmm........

TBH - RAID for a desktop PC is not worth the hassle!!

have you considered just installing your drives / OS as normal, RAID offers no real performance boost.

Sorry it's not what you want to hear but i'mm afraid it's true...

**UPDATE - sorry u want to protect your data - fair enough - give us your system specs etc...

Matt

 

Im not going for performance here.

 

DFI LanParty UT NF4 Ultra-D. AMD 64 3500 1gb OCZ PC3700 Ram. Win XP Pro

 

have you been to disk management yet

right click my computer - manage - disk management format disk - quick format?

 

"Windows was unable to format the disk"

 

what controllers are your raids on?

 

what do you mean?

 

nevermind im really confused, it might be worth rebuilding your raid and restarting.

 

I really don't understand what you've done yourself to fix this. What hardware are you using? What RAID controller, what hard drives, SATA or IDE, how and when did you build the RAID, did you build it into a proper RAID1?

You've left a lot of things unanswered for wanting help so bad.

 

Im using the onboard raid and utilities for configuring it.

Sata Drives