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Getting a disk read error when trying to create a SATA RAID


boltsink2303

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HELLO, I DONT USE TOO MANY FORUMS, ACTUALLY THIS IS MY SECOND ONE. BUT I NEED SOME HELP INSTALLING A SATA RAID PLEASE. BARE WITH ME I AM A WOMAN WHO BUILT MY OWN SYSTEM FOR THE FIRST TIME, AND IT ACTUALLY WORKED OUT FOR ME. BUT ANYWHO, HERE WE GO. I ALREADY HAVE A 200GB SEAGATE BARRACUDA HARD DRIVE AND I JUST PURCHASED A NEW 320GB SEAGATE BARRACUDA HARD DRIVE. I WANTED TO CREATE A SATA RAID 0. FIRST I TRIED TO ENABLE RAID IN THE BIOS. THEN USING CTRL + S TO ENTER THE RAID UTILITY I CREATED A STRIPED ARRAY. BUT WHEN I REBOOTED THE COMPUTER THIS IS WHAT COMES UP :

VERIFYING DMI POOL DATA...

BACKUP CMOS...OK!

A DISK READ ERROR OCCURED

PRESS CTRL + ALT + DEL TO RESTART

AFTER DOING SOME MORE RESEARCH, I CONVERTED BOTH DISKS FROM BASIC TO DYNAMIC IN DISK MANAGEMENT. I THEN CREATED A NEW STRIPED VOLUME USING UNALLOCATED DISK DRIVE SPACE. AFTER RE-ENABLING RAID IN THE BIOS I REBOOTED THE PC. BUT I GOT THE SAME ERROR MENTIONED ABOVE.

ONE SET OF INSTRUCTIONS TOLD ME TO DISABLE IDE CHANNEL 0 IN THE BIOS. I TRIED THAT WITH THE SAME ERROR AS ABOVE.

DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY IDEAS AS TO WHAT STEPS I'M MISSING? I'VE WRACKED MY BRAIN FOR DAYS ON HOW TO GET THIS TO WORK. AND I'M DRAWING A BLANK. ANY HELP WOULD BE APPRECIATED. CALLING ALL PC GEEKS TO HELP THIS DAMSEL IN DISTRESS.

HERE ARE MY SYSTEM SPECS:

WINDOWS XP PRO WITH SP2

AMD ATHLON FX-60 PROCESSOR

DFI SLI-DR MOTHERBOARD

LITE ON DISK DRIVE

GEFORCE 7800 GT OC GRAPHICS CARD

1GB OCZ PLATINUM 3200+ MEMORY

200GB SEAGATE BARRACUDA HDD

320GB SEAGATE BARRACUDA HDD

EPSILON 600W POWER SUPPLY

THANKS IN ADVANCE

:angel JAMIE ;)

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To my knowledge, you cant create a raid 0 with different size disk (for it to work best they have to be the same make/model)

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