Hardware RAID Logical Drive - Formatting and Assign Drive Letter 1

[JohnBates]

Hi,

I'm configuring a new server. Used IBM's ServeRAID utility to create a RAID level 5 array containing 2 logical drives - before I installed 2000 Server. No problem with that.

During the OS install, I remember seeing 2 drives - ID0 and ID1. I formatted ID0 as NTFS and this is where the operating system is. But I must have forgot to format ID1.

This is what the Control Panel --> Disk Management shows now:

- Disk 0 Basic NTFS Primary partition Volume C

- Disk 1 Unknown unallocated no volume letter

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Question (finally !) - I thought I could use the Windows Disk Management to format Disk 1 and assign a drive letter. But a right-click on Disk 1 only gives 2 options - Write Signature and Properties.

How can I get Disk 1 formatted ?
(This is hardware RAID and Windows 2000 Server has been installed onto logical Disk 0)
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Thanks, John

I hope there is not a limit on the number of questions a member can submit in a 24-hour period

 

[Petje]

First write a signature.. then dis management knows it can do something with the drive... then create partition and format...



Petje
A+, MCP, MCSE on NT4.0 and windows 2000 with messaging specialty and CCEA

 

[catorze]

Petje is correct. Using hardware RAID (ServeRAID) to create logical drives presents the OS with what is sees as physical disks. Once you write the signature to the disk, you can partition and format as you like.