This is my first time to setup sata raid and is also my first time to do raid at all in Windows 2000.

I got 2 250 gig Seagate Drives and I am trying to set them up to be mirrored. It appears to be setup fines in bios but my problem is within windows. When I go to computer management to set up the partition is it still shows 2 seperate drives instead of the single raid volume. So it appears that it is letting me create a partition on each drive which is not what I want.

I am sure that I am doing somthing stupid wrong.

Hardware:

Motherboard: DFI nF3 250-AL

Hard Drives: 2x SATA Seagate Barracuda 250gb

OS: Windows 2000 Server

Also what is the max partition size in windows 2000.

Thanks

What RAID controller are you using? Or are you trying to use Windows 2000's built in software RAID (which is not recommended).

max part size i beleive is 137gigs

if windows shows 2 drives then you did not setup the raid mirror correctly

u will need to recreate the raid in the bios, then reinstall windows

when you install windows it should show only 1 drive, if you see 2 then you did something wrong again

it should show only 1 drive, if you see 2 then you did something wrong again

That is what I thought. I am trying to set this up post windows install. This is not the volume I wanted windows windows installed on. It will be used only for storage/backup purposes.

I deleted the mirrored volume then recreated it and this did not show any difference.

Also device manager shows all devices installed correctly.

max part size i beleive is 137gigs

Can I use a third party program to create a larger partition?

Thanks

i think its a windows 2000 problem, unless they fixed it, so no

Just an update.

All it took to fix it was to upgrade to Service Pack 4. I would have tried it before but I thought that it already had service pack 4.