2 Right-click the available hard drive to which you want to rebuild the RAID level 1 or 5 volume, and click Rebuild to this Disk.
3 You can use your computer while the computer is rebuilding the RAID level 1 or 5 volume.
Configuring Your Computer for RAID Using the Intel
®RAID Option ROM
Utility
NOTICE: You will lose any data on your hard drives when you create a RAID configuration using the following procedure. Back up data that you want to keep before continuing.
NOTICE: Use the following procedure only if you are reinstalling your operating system. Do not use the following procedure to migrate an existing storage configuration to RAID level 0 configuration.
Creating a RAID Level 0 Configuration
NOTICE: You will lose any data on your hard drives when you create a RAID configuration using the following procedure. Back up data that you want to keep before continuing.
1 Set your computer to RAID-enabled mode (see "Setting Your Computer to RAID-Enabled Mode" on page 53).
2 Press <Ctrl><i> when you are prompted to enter the IntelRAID Option ROM utility.
3 Press the up- and down-arrow keys to highlight Create RAID Volume, and press <Enter>.
4 Enter a RAID volume name or accept the default, and press <Enter>. 5 Press the up- and down-arrow keys to select RAID0(Stripe), and press
<Enter>.
6 If more than two hard drives are available, press the up- and down-arrow keys and spacebar to select the two or three drives that you want to use to make up your configuration, and then press <Enter>.
Select the strip size closest to the size of the average file that you want to store on the RAID volume. If you do not know the average file size, choose 128 KB as your strip size.
7 Press the up- and down-arrow keys to change the strip size and press <Enter>.
8 Select the desired capacity for the volume and press <Enter>. The default value is the maximum available size.
9 Press <Enter> to create the volume.
10 Press <y> to confirm that you want to create the RAID volume. 11 Confirm that the correct volume configuration is displayed on the main
Intel RAID Option ROM utility screen.
12 Press the up- and down-arrow keys to select Exit and press <Enter>. 13 Install the operating system (see "Reinstalling Windows XP or Windows
Vista" on page 149.)
Creating a RAID Level 1 Configuration
NOTICE: You will lose any data on your hard drives when you create a RAID configuration using the following procedure. Back up data that you want to keep before continuing.
1 Set your computer to RAID-enabled mode (see "Setting Your Computer to RAID-Enabled Mode" on page 53).
2 Press <Ctrl><i> when you are prompted to enter the Intel RAID Option ROM utility.
3 Use the up- and down-arrow keys to highlight Create RAID Volume and press <Enter>.
4 Enter a RAID volume name or accept the default and press <Enter>. 5 Use the up- and down-arrow keys to select RAID1(Mirror) and press
<Enter>.
6 If there are more than two hard drives available, press the up- and down- arrow keys and spacebar to select the two drives you want to use to make up your volume, and then press <Enter>.
8 Press <Enter> to create the volume.
9 Press <y> to confirm that you want to create the RAID volume. 10 Confirm that the correct volume configuration is displayed on the main
Intel RAID Option ROM utility screen.
11 Use the up- and down-arrow keys to select Exit and press <Enter>. 12 Install the operating system (see "Reinstalling Windows XP or Windows
Vista" on page 149.)
Creating a RAID Level 5 Configuration
NOTICE: You will lose any data on your hard drives when you create a RAID configuration using the following procedure. Back up data that you want to keep before continuing.
1 Set your computer to RAID-enabled mode (see "Setting Your Computer to RAID-Enabled Mode" on page 53).
2 Press <Ctrl><i> when you are prompted to enter the Intel RAID Option ROM utility.
3 Use the up- and down-arrow keys to highlight Create RAID Volume, and press <Enter>.
4 Enter a RAID volume name or accept the default, and press <Enter>. 5 Use the up- and down-arrow keys to select RAID5(Parity), and press
<Enter>.
6 Press the up- and down-arrow keys and spacebar to select the three or four drives you want to use to make up your volume, and then press <Enter>. 7 Select the desired capacity for the volume, and press <Enter>. The
default value is the maximum available size. 8 Press <Enter> to create the volume.
9 Press <y> to confirm that you want to create the RAID volume. 10 Confirm that the correct volume configuration is displayed on the main
Intel RAID Option ROM utility screen.
11 Use the up- and down-arrow keys to select Exit, and press <Enter>. 12 Install the operating system (see "Reinstalling Windows XP or Windows
Deleting a RAID Volume
NOTICE: When you perform this operation, all data on the RAID drives will be lost. NOTICE: If your computer currently boots to RAID and you delete the RAID volume in the Intel RAID Option ROM utility, your computer will become unbootable. 1 Press <Ctrl><i> when you are prompted to enter the Intel RAID Option
ROM utility.
2 Use the up- and down-arrow keys to highlight Delete RAID Volume, and press <Enter>.
3 Use the up- and down-arrow keys to highlight the RAID volume you want to delete, and press <Delete>.
4 Press <y> to confirm the deletion of the RAID volume. 5 Press <Esc> to exit the Intel RAID Option ROM utility.