[Solved]Need help with Raid0 Hard drives

Hello, i finally got my dell Studio xps 8100
Windows 7 - 64bit dutch
Intel core I7 870 @ 2.93Ghz
8GB Ram (4x2GB)
2 Raid0 hard drives: 2x1.5TB
Nvidia GTX460 - 1GB video ram
BD read only, dvd/cd read and write

Now: as you can see i have 1.74 TB and 994 TB, which is not 2times 1.5TB so I realised they made an 1.74TB partition and a 1TB partition, and a 10GB recovery partition (not visible in the picture) So there is another 300GB missing :S
Now, the 2 hard drives work together but i want them split, 2 TOTAL INDEPENDENT hard drives of 1.5TB EACH, not 1.5TB on the one HD and 300GB on the other …
Is there anyway to do this? Thanks in advance
Answer #1
first off, the about of space you have looks quite right. counted together it’s about 2,73TB, which is what two 1.5TB disk have after being formatted. (this is because manufacturers count a TB as 1.000.000.000.000bytes while it actually is 109951162777byts).
what you’ll have to do to split them depends on your raidcontroller, so I’d suggest reading the manual at least, it usually covers that kind of stuff.
Answer #2
Oh ok I’ll check the manual
Answer #3
see what’s listed in windows disk managment
Answer #4
Okay new problem, i have acronis disk director but that can’t solve the problem too,
do i have to reformat my pc in order to have 2 seperate hard drives instead of 2 raid0 drives?
Answer #5
For raid you have to have two identical drives.
Answer #6
What I’m confused by is that RAID 0 doesn’t double hard disk space between two drives. The usable space is the same as a single drive only that it’s effectively 2x faster. How you’re getting that with a RAID0 setup is beyond me. As for configuring the array you can do what you please inside the BIOS.
Answer #7
Okay new problem, i have acronis disk director but that can't solve the problem too,
do i have to reformat my pc in order to have 2 seperate hard drives instead of 2 raid0 drives?
You’d have to disable RAID from bios and reformat but
as already explained below all space of both HDD is utilized
already.
D r e a M – Your confusing between RAID0 to RAID1.
RAID0 essentially combines 2 HDDs together so all space
is utilized but if one of em fails the array is broken
and the data is gone.. But of course can be partially recovered.
In RAID1 the 1st HDD works normally and the 2nd
is used solely for mirroring so if the first one fails the 2nd
can be used instead as it contains the exact same data.
Answer #8
I’ll keep the Raid0 as i wanted, because my mom wanted me to change it.
Thanks for your help
Answer #9
Okay new problem, i have acronis disk director but that can't solve the problem too,
do i have to reformat my pc in order to have 2 seperate hard drives instead of 2 raid0 drives?
You'd have to disable RAID from bios and reformat but
as already explained below all space of both HDD is utilized
already.
D r e a M - Your confusing between RAID0 to RAID1.
RAID0 essentially combines 2 HDDs together so all space
is utilized but if one of em fails the array is broken
and the data is gone.. But of course can be partially recovered.
In RAID1 the 1st HDD works normally and the 2nd
is used solely for mirroring so if the first one fails the 2nd
can be used instead as it contains the exact same data.Yeah sorry, blame sleep deprivation. I’ve been having way too much of it lately. Also explains my excessive inactiveness