raid 0 question

[plizzo]

i just scored 2 120 gb wd spec edit and am trying to set up raid 0. it is on the soyo in my sig(hdd different now obviously). i set it up in the 2nd bios with no problems and installed the winxp pro with no problems, very quickly i might add. however i chose to only create a 10 gb partition during the initial setup. what app do i use to partition the rest? i tried to use partition magic 7.0 and the disk management feature in windows, and neither seemed to be doing it properly. if i understand it correctly, when i create a 20 gb partition, it should deduct 40 gb from my unallocated space(20 from each physical drive)? but it doesnt do it that way. it allowed me to create another 220 gb worth of partitions which shouldnt be happening?
any pointers? do i have to have just one big partition? or do i need to create all of them during the install process of windows?
thanks guys.

[Jon]

If you have two 120GB drives in a RAID 0 stripe then you have 240GB of total space to use. If you created a 20GB partition then you should have about 220GB left over.

Also, you partitioned the drive after setting up the stripe set, right?

[mbigna]

Read my instructions for RAID on the Dragon+ here:

http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=85701&highlight=RTFM

Let your O/S do the partitioning for you after your RAID is live.

[plizzo]

thanks guys, i had my raids confused.