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2
Click the
Start
button and point to
Programs
→
Intel(R) Matrix Storage
Manager
→
Intel Matrix Storage Console
to launch the Intel Storage
Utility.
3
If you do not see an
Actions
menu option, you have not yet set your
computer to RAID-enabled mode (see "Setting Your Computer to RAID-
Enabled Mode" on page 53).
4
On the
Actions
menu, select
Create RAID Volume
to launch the Create
RAID Volume Wizard.
5
Click
Next
at the first screen.
6
Confirm the volume name, select
RAID 5
as the RAID level, and then
click
Next
to continue.
7
On the
Select Volume Location
screen, click the first hard drive you want
to use to create your RAID level 5 volume, and then click the right arrow.
Click two or three additional drives until either three or four drives appear
in the
Selected
window, and then click
Next
.
8
In the
Specify Volume Size
window, select the
Volume Size
desired and
click
Next
.
9
Click
Finish
to create the volume, or click
Back
to make changes.
10
Follow Microsoft Windows procedures for creating a partition on the new
RAID volume.
Deleting a RAID Volume
NOTICE: While this procedure deletes the RAID 1 volume, it also splits the RAID 1
volume into two non-RAID hard drives with a partition, and leaves any existing data
files intact. Deleting a RAID 0 or 5 volume, however, destroys all data on the volume.
1
Click the
Start
button and point to
Programs
→
Intel(R) Matrix Storage
Manager
→
Intel Matrix Storage Console
to launch the Intel Storage
Utility.
2
Right-click the
Volume
icon of the RAID volume you want to delete, and
select
Delete Volume
.
3
On the
Delete RAID Volume Wizard
screen, click
Next
.
4
Highlight the RAID volume you want to delete in the
Available
box, click
the right-arrow button to move the highlighted RAID volume into the
Selected
box, and then click
Next
.