My Dell came with Raid1 implemented on it. I have never paid much attention
to it as I use an offsite backup. Recently I looked at Drive 2 to see what
was on it and discovered that it was empty. Disk properties show almost no
usage at all where drive 1 is almost half full. This uses an Intel Raid
drive and a system check says the controller is working normally. What's
going on?

most likely the raid controller was made active, but the raid drives
themselves were never set up, so all data was written to drive 1, just a guess

"Douglashen" wrote:

> My Dell came with Raid1 implemented on it. I have never paid much attention
> to it as I use an offsite backup. Recently I looked at Drive 2 to see what
> was on it and discovered that it was empty. Disk properties show almost no
> usage at all where drive 1 is almost half full. This uses an Intel Raid
> drive and a system check says the controller is working normally. What's
> going on?

Sounds logical to me. Now, how do I set up the drives?

--
Doug


"sgopus" wrote:

> most likely the raid controller was made active, but the raid drives
> themselves were never set up, so all data was written to drive 1, just a guess
>
> "Douglashen" wrote:
>
> > My Dell came with Raid1 implemented on it. I have never paid much attention
> > to it as I use an offsite backup. Recently I looked at Drive 2 to see what
> > was on it and discovered that it was empty. Disk properties show almost no
> > usage at all where drive 1 is almost half full. This uses an Intel Raid
> > drive and a system check says the controller is working normally. What's
> > going on?

See if this helps
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/102530..._professional/

"Douglashen" wrote:

> Sounds logical to me. Now, how do I set up the drives?
>
> --
> Doug
>
>
> "sgopus" wrote:
>
> > most likely the raid controller was made active, but the raid drives
> > themselves were never set up, so all data was written to drive 1, just a guess
> >
> > "Douglashen" wrote:
> >
> > > My Dell came with Raid1 implemented on it. I have never paid much attention
> > > to it as I use an offsite backup. Recently I looked at Drive 2 to see what
> > > was on it and discovered that it was empty. Disk properties show almost no
> > > usage at all where drive 1 is almost half full. This uses an Intel Raid
> > > drive and a system check says the controller is working normally. What's
> > > going on?

Go into BIOS, there is a RAID selection. Just turn it on...

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"Douglashen" <Douglashen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Sounds logical to me. Now, how do I set up the drives?
>
> --
> Doug
>
>
> "sgopus" wrote:
>
>> most likely the raid controller was made active, but the raid drives
>> themselves were never set up, so all data was written to drive 1, just a
>> guess
>>
>> "Douglashen" wrote:
>>
>> > My Dell came with Raid1 implemented on it. I have never paid much
>> > attention
>> > to it as I use an offsite backup. Recently I looked at Drive 2 to see
>> > what
>> > was on it and discovered that it was empty. Disk properties show
>> > almost no
>> > usage at all where drive 1 is almost half full. This uses an Intel
>> > Raid
>> > drive and a system check says the controller is working normally.
>> > What's
>> > going on?