Help Raid 0 Windows XP x64

[Encrypto]

Okay,

I have an AMD Phenom II 955 @ 3.21 Ghz in a Gigabyte MA790XT-UD4P and am trying to run a Raid 0 array with 2 Seagate 1.5 TB Barracudas. Stripe size is 16k because someone told me you should only set it at that if your using windows due to a 4:1 ratio between that and the 4kb cluster size windows has...anyways my problem doesn't seem to be with any of that but during my windows installation when it asks if I want to create a partition or format the one I have both drives are only showing up as one as they should be at 2861563 MB, but when I try to hit enter to just format it it doesn't do anything...Am I supposed to create the partition at half the size of that and then format that one cuz that's what I did instead for some reason it just won't let me format the raw 2861563 MB space unless I reduce the size alot. Any help is much appreciated cuz it takes a long *** time to format these friggen things. Oh and I loaded the 64 drivers for my gigabyte raid array with Nlite directly into my OS since I don't have a floppy controller on my board.

 

[Encrypto]

Bump!

 

[TollhouseFrank]

from what i'm seeing, it is a limit of windows and the MFT. The MFT can only support up to 2 terabytes and it seems you have quite a bit more than that.

My quick research has led me to this link: http://forums.techarena.in/hardware-peripherals/1130013.htm which should explain a lot better what is going on and why you are limited.

 

[Encrypto]

Thanks TollhouseFrank for the input, but I don't believe that is an issue from what I've read of your link they explain that this is a problem in 32 bit XP, but I am using Windows XP Professional x64, there's gotta be another reason, I formatted the thing at half the size i was supposed to I believe, and my gigabyte program for raid reads the hard disks and their actual size but I'm thinking something is still wrong.

 

[TollhouseFrank]

does your raid controller support lba64?

 

[Encrypto]

I'm not sure or where to look I have the Manual for my motherboard maybe it's in there but the more I've been futzing with this the more I think you're right anyways I just tried making another partition for Windows 7 and it will only let me use another 650 MB of my drives which = out to about 2 TB for use this is beginning to make sense to me, but I don't understand why it's doing it with Windows x64, maybe if I do the whole thing with Windows 7 and do Windows XP second? Or maybe like you say my controller doesn't support lba64. I do have 2 raid controllers 1 AMD and 1 Gigabyte I'm using the gigabyte one because I figured it would be higher quality and it only has 2 SATAII slots on it while the other has 6 SATA slots.

 

[Encrypto]

Guess you're right I must not have lba64 support or windows in general doesn't because even windows 7 setup won't let me go over 2048 GB, which is big enough I guess but then maybe I shoulda just bought 2x1 TB hard drives instead. Thank you for your assistance.

 

[psionic98]

why not just partition off like 250gb from each and use the partition as your raid setup?

 

[TollhouseFrank]

unfortunately, raid doesn't work that way.