Acer G301 manual Configuring Arrays, Creating a Mirrored Array From an Existing Drive

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Configuring Arrays

After you have enabled IDE Software RAID in BIOS and have attached all physical disk drives, perform the following actions to prepare a RAID disk array

Step	Action
1	Press <CTRL>+<M> to run the IDE Software RAID Manager
2	Define and configure one or more logical drives.
3	Create and configure one or more system drives (logical drives).
4	Save the configuration.
5	Initialize the system drives. After initialization, you can install the operating
	system.

Creating a Mirrored Array From an Existing Drive

To build a new mirrored array from an existing drive, connect the current drive and a new drive to the RAID card. Perform the following steps.

•Turn on the computer and Press <CTRL>+<M> to start the IDE Software RAID manager.

•Create an array by using Option F4. Change the array type to Mirror.

•Now include the existing drive and the new drive to this array. You can identify the existing drive and the new drive by their connection location.

•Start the rebuilding process by pressing <ENTER>. The setup will prompt for the target drive name. select the newly connected drive as the target drive by pressing <SPACE> and then <ENTER>.

•The rebuilding process will start. If there are any errors during the building of the array, you will be prompted with a message box. You can choose to ignore the error and proceed or stop the building process.