baumgrenze

Hello!

I've encountered a confusing set of messages when I boot my machine with a new SATA HDD installed. I find that XP Pro SE2 wants to send it through a wizard to initialize it and set it up as a dynamic disk.

Here is some relevant basic info on my machine from a Belarc Advisor Audit

System Model
Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. EP35-DS3P

Main Circuit Board
Board: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. EP35-DS3P
Bus Clock: 266 megahertz
BIOS: Award Software International, Inc. F2 01/02/2008

I snapped some digital photos during the boot sequence. I find that I am told that at:

Port-04: Hard Disk, WBC WD5000AAKS 00A7B0
(Drive is controlled by the RAID BIOS)

As the screen scrolls, I find the following report:

4 WD5000AAKS-0 WD-WMASY0568494 465.8GB Non-RAID Disk

I find this mixed message very confusing.

When I open Computer Management (Local)>Storage>Disk Management, I find that XP Pro opens the "Initialize and Convert Disk Wizard to help me set up this disk as a dynamic disk. I gather that the "Drive is controlled by the RAID BIOS" message is driving this behavior.

Ports 0 and 1 are a pair of 70 GB disks configured in a RAID 1 array. These contain my OS, programs, and documents.

I do not want to mess this up. I do want to format the disk on Port 4 as a simple data storage disk (no RAID.)

Can anyone explain? I am stymied.

baumgrenze

baumgrenze

How nice it is to find a simple solution. I found explicit instructions.

I stopped the "Initialize and Convert Disk Wizard" and then I right clicked just to the left of the large cross-hatched box instead of inside the cross-hatched box. That was the key. This disk is now formatting!

baumgrenze

eneles

Thanks for letting us know.
I'll mark this [Solved] - post back if you have further questions.

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