Gigabyte GA-7N400 user manual Initial Window, Creating Partitions

This window has three main sections:

SECTION 1: System listing of all formatted and available disks/RAID Sets.

SECTION 2: Report of physical connection of disks/RAID Sets.

SECTION 3: Report of partition status, disk letter, and volume name.

Initial Window

In SECTION 2, every disk should report as:

Basic

Disk Size (the actual available disk space will be reported here)

Online

Instead of “Basic,” a disk may also report as either “Unknown” or “Dynamic.”

If the disk reports as “Unknown,” right-click on the disk (SECTION 2) and click on Write Signature.

At this point, a window will appear with the disk in question (all “Unknown” disks may appear in this win- dow). Make sure the box next to each disk is checked, then click OK.

The disk should now report as “Basic.”

If a disk reports as “Dynamic,” right-click on SECTION 2 of that disk, and click on “Return disk to Basic...” Within seconds the disk should report as Basic.

Creating Partitions

In SECTION 2, the disk order corresponds directly to the order the Sets appear in the BIOS. Therefore, the first Unallocated Partition represents Set 1, and so on.

1.At this point, there should be three disks with Unallocated partitions. Right-click on the partition of the first disk and click on “Create Partition.” The “Create Partition Wizard” should appear.

1.The first window is an introductory window to the Wizard. Click Next.

2.The second window designates the partition as a primary partition. Click Next.

3.The third window designates the partition size. Since this is a Striped RAID set, utilizing 2 disk drives, the size of the partition should be approximately double the size of a single disk drive (assuming all disks are of identical size). Click Next.

4.The fourth window designates the drive letter of the partition.

SATA RAID Function 9