Dell NX046 manual Deleting a RAID Volume, On the Delete RAID Volume Wizard screen, click Next

2Click the Start button and point to Programs→ Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager→ Intel Matrix Storage Console to launch the Intel Storage Utility.

3If 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).

4On the Actions menu, select Create RAID Volume to launch the Create RAID Volume Wizard.

5Click Next at the first screen.

6Confirm the volume name, select RAID 5 as the RAID level, and then click Next to continue.

7On 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.

8In the Specify Volume Size window, select the Volume Size desired and click Next.

9Click Finish to create the volume, or click Back to make changes.

10Follow 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.

1Click the Start button and point to Programs→ Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager→ Intel Matrix Storage Console to launch the Intel Storage Utility.

2Right-click the Volume icon of the RAID volume you want to delete, and select Delete Volume.

3On the Delete RAID Volume Wizard screen, click Next.

4Highlight 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.

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