Joe_Miner Posted April 21, 2013 Share Posted April 21, 2013 I put 3 250GB Drives in a N40L with the intent of creating a RAID0 of the 3 drives. Went into BIOS Setting Utility V1.5 Initialized all 3 drives Went to Create Clicked RAID0:Striping and get an Error Message: Not Enough Disks for Creating an Array What am I missing here -- after clicking the RAID0: Striping shouldn't it give me a menu of the 3 initialized drives that I could then select the one's to go into the RAID0? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pcdoc Posted April 21, 2013 Share Posted April 21, 2013 Where these disks from a previous array? I have seen this before when the drive where initialized before with the card. Try manually deleting all the partitions and try again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe_Miner Posted April 21, 2013 Author Share Posted April 21, 2013 Yes, two disks were from a previous RAID0 -- I deleted that RAID and was trying to create a new one with 3 HDD's. I will put them into another machine and delete any partitions I find and let you know what happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikon Posted April 21, 2013 Share Posted April 21, 2013 This is where DiskPart works really well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe_Miner Posted April 22, 2013 Author Share Posted April 22, 2013 I manually deleted the partitions on all three drives and tried again with no luck. Then I tried DiskPart and cleaned all three drives -- put them back in the machine with the RR2720 and again no luck -- same thing as before. They initially show up as legacy drives, I initialize them in V1.5 and go to create and no matter which option i choose it says I don't have enough drives. I've posted an issue with HighPoint so I'll see what kind of response I get back from them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikon Posted April 22, 2013 Share Posted April 22, 2013 Well doesn't that just suck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ImTheTypeOfGuy Posted April 22, 2013 Share Posted April 22, 2013 I manually deleted the partitions on all three drives and tried again with no luck. Then I tried DiskPart and cleaned all three drives -- put them back in the machine with the RR2720 and again no luck -- same thing as before. They initially show up as legacy drives, I initialize them in V1.5 and go to create and no matter which option i choose it says I don't have enough drives. I've posted an issue with HighPoint so I'll see what kind of response I get back from them. I have had the exact issue. After I couldn't get it to work on my 2720 I then tried on the motherboard with the same results. I figured it was something that diskpart couldn't clean and gave up because I don't have time to troubleshoot things like this. I figured it would be something simple but only after I spent hours on it. Drives went in the garbage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe_Miner Posted April 22, 2013 Author Share Posted April 22, 2013 Where these disks from a previous array? I have seen this before when the drive where initialized before with the card. Try manually deleting all the partitions and try again. This is where DiskPart works really well. I did a DiskPart Clean but now I'm wondering if i should have done a DiskPart Clean All on each of the disks -- may try that tonight! Right now it see's the Disks as Legacy and apparently when I initialize it not everything is getting initialized (my guess) so that it would see the disks as usable in making a RAID. Should hear from HighPoint -- so maybe they'll have something interesting for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikon Posted April 22, 2013 Share Posted April 22, 2013 Thanks JM. Will be interesting to see what your results are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pcdoc Posted April 22, 2013 Share Posted April 22, 2013 Can't wait to hear about this one. This should interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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