Hey Oc'ers,
I recently was at frys helping a friend get some stereo components, and so natrually by the time I left i had spent $180 on two 500Gb Hitachi Deskstar drives* and a SIIG RAID Card
. So I popped my raid card into a PCI-e 1x slot, plugged in my two drives, and since i already had a drive the computer with windows on it, i started it up and installed the drivers and management software included on the disk. Initially i just setup a typical RAID 0 array, and started creating partition. (though it would only let me quick format the partitions for some reason).
So with my partitions made and formatted I proceeded to restart and boot to my windows disk in an attempt to install it on one of my newly made partitions, unfortunately though when i went to the screen were you select which partition i want to put windows on my raid array didn't even show up as a disk on the list.
After some poking around on the management program i found a legacy support setting which appeared to be necessary to make the array bootable.
So i enabled that and converted my array to a "legacy group". Unfortunately My array still does not show up on my window boot disk and thus cannot install windows. What do I need to do to install windows on my array? I read somewhere that it would be necessary to do a low level format of the disks before i create the raid array, but i have already put a significant amount of data on the array already so before i do that i wanna make sure that's actually my problem before i go through the hassle of moving all my data back onto other drives.
Here's a screen of the management program as it looks right now, and the menu from which i enabled the "legacy support".
*Note: For some handicapped reason i cant find a single model number for my drive on either the frys website, or on the box it came in. If it is important to the issue at hand though i can take out a drive and get.

I recently was at frys helping a friend get some stereo components, and so natrually by the time I left i had spent $180 on two 500Gb Hitachi Deskstar drives* and a SIIG RAID Card
. So I popped my raid card into a PCI-e 1x slot, plugged in my two drives, and since i already had a drive the computer with windows on it, i started it up and installed the drivers and management software included on the disk. Initially i just setup a typical RAID 0 array, and started creating partition. (though it would only let me quick format the partitions for some reason).
So with my partitions made and formatted I proceeded to restart and boot to my windows disk in an attempt to install it on one of my newly made partitions, unfortunately though when i went to the screen were you select which partition i want to put windows on my raid array didn't even show up as a disk on the list.
After some poking around on the management program i found a legacy support setting which appeared to be necessary to make the array bootable.
So i enabled that and converted my array to a "legacy group". Unfortunately My array still does not show up on my window boot disk and thus cannot install windows. What do I need to do to install windows on my array? I read somewhere that it would be necessary to do a low level format of the disks before i create the raid array, but i have already put a significant amount of data on the array already so before i do that i wanna make sure that's actually my problem before i go through the hassle of moving all my data back onto other drives.
Here's a screen of the management program as it looks right now, and the menu from which i enabled the "legacy support".
*Note: For some handicapped reason i cant find a single model number for my drive on either the frys website, or on the box it came in. If it is important to the issue at hand though i can take out a drive and get.