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- ASRock ALiveNF4G-DVI | RAID Utility for Windows Guide - Page 1
RAID Utility for Windows 1. Enter NVRAIDMAN RAID driver is built in nVidia ALL in one driver provided in our support CD. After you finish the driver installation, you can create, delete, or rebuild any RAID array. Please enter NVRAIDMAN by clicking on Start Programs NVIDIA Corporation Mediashield - ASRock ALiveNF4G-DVI | RAID Utility for Windows Guide - Page 2
array from one disk up to the maximum supported number of disks in the system. To create a twodisk Striped Array do the following. 1. Go to the system BIOS and make sure that the drives that you want to use are RAID enabled. 2. Boot to Windows and launch the NVRAIDMAN application. 3. Create Array - ASRock ALiveNF4G-DVI | RAID Utility for Windows Guide - Page 3
4. Click Next and the following screen shot will appear. 5. Click the RAID Mode list arrow and select Striping, and leave the "Stripe Size" with its default value as shown in the following screen shot. 3 - ASRock ALiveNF4G-DVI | RAID Utility for Windows Guide - Page 4
6. Click Next, and the following screen shot will appear. 7. Select the two disks that you want to include in the stripe set. To create a striped array with more disks, select additional disks from the list. 4 - ASRock ALiveNF4G-DVI | RAID Utility for Windows Guide - Page 5
8. Click Next and the following screen shot will appear. 9. Click Finish and the following screen shot will appear. The RAID 0 is created successfully. 5 - ASRock ALiveNF4G-DVI | RAID Utility for Windows Guide - Page 6
be recovered from the other drive. To create a Mirrored Array, do the following. 1. Go to the system BIOS and make sure that the drives that you want to use are RAID enabled. 2. Boot to Windows and launch the NVRAIDMAN application, then click on Create Array and the following screen will appear. 6 - ASRock ALiveNF4G-DVI | RAID Utility for Windows Guide - Page 7
3. Click Next and the following screen shot will appear. 4. Click Next and the following screen shot will appear. #/KTTQTKPICTTC[TGSWKTGUHTGGJCTFFKUMU 7 - ASRock ALiveNF4G-DVI | RAID Utility for Windows Guide - Page 8
5. Select the two drives that you want to use in the Mirrored array. #/KTTQTKPICTTC[TGSWKTGUHTGGJCTFFKUMU 6. Click Next and the following screen shot will appear. 8 - ASRock ALiveNF4G-DVI | RAID Utility for Windows Guide - Page 9
7. If you want to start rebuilding the array right away (copy data from one disk to the other), select the disk that you wish to preserve. Do not select a disk if you do not want to rebuild the array at this time. 8. Click Next and the following screen shot appears. 9. Click Finish. If you selected - ASRock ALiveNF4G-DVI | RAID Utility for Windows Guide - Page 10
disk to start such an array. To create a Spanning Array do the following: 1. Go to the system BIOS and make sure that the drives that you want to use are RAID enabled. 2. Boot to Windows and launch the NVRAIDMAN application, then click on Create Array and the following screen will appear. 3. Click - ASRock ALiveNF4G-DVI | RAID Utility for Windows Guide - Page 11
4. Click the RAID Mode list arrow and select "Spanning" while leaving the Stripe Size set to its default value as shown in the following screen shot. 5. Click Next and the following screen shot will appear. #5RCPPKPICTTC[TGSWKTGUQTOQTGHTGGJCTFFKUMU 11 - ASRock ALiveNF4G-DVI | RAID Utility for Windows Guide - Page 12
6. Select the two drives that you want to use in the Spanned array. #5RCPPKPICTTC[TGSWKTGUQTOQTGHTGGJCTFFKUMU 7. Click Next and the following screen shot will appear. 12 - ASRock ALiveNF4G-DVI | RAID Utility for Windows Guide - Page 13
8. Click Finish and the following screen shot will appear. A Spanned Array has been created. 13 - ASRock ALiveNF4G-DVI | RAID Utility for Windows Guide - Page 14
3. Initializing NVRAID Array Disks Now that the two-disk array has been created, it needs to be partitioned and formatted. 1. Click on StartШSettingsШControl Panel. 2. Double click on Administrative Tools. 3. Double click on Computer Management. 4. Click on Disk Management. The following screen is - ASRock ALiveNF4G-DVI | RAID Utility for Windows Guide - Page 15
5. The 153.38 GB is for the two disk striped array that was created earlier. To create a partition on it, right click on the Unallocated partition and select New Partition. 6. Follow the Wizard for setting up and formatting the partition. Once that is done, you can start using the newly created - ASRock ALiveNF4G-DVI | RAID Utility for Windows Guide - Page 16
4. Deleting a RAID Array NVRAIDMAN can be used to delete an Array. To delete an Array do the following. 1. Launch the NVRAIDMAN application and right click on the RAID array that you want to delete (assuming that you have a RAID array already created) as shown in the following screen shot. The above - ASRock ALiveNF4G-DVI | RAID Utility for Windows Guide - Page 17
2. Click Next and the following screen shot will appear. 3. Click Finish and the array will be deleted and the following screen shot will appear showing all the free disks. A similar process can be applied to delete any array created by NVIDIA RAID. 17 - ASRock ALiveNF4G-DVI | RAID Utility for Windows Guide - Page 18
then the data is synchronized between the two hard drives. After creating a mirrored array, you can rebuild the array using the following steps: 1. Go to Windows and run the NVIDIA RAID Management utility. 2. Right-click on Mirroring. Then the popup menu appears. 18 - ASRock ALiveNF4G-DVI | RAID Utility for Windows Guide - Page 19
3. From the popup menu, click Rebuild Array. The NVIDIA Rebuild Array Wizard appears. 4. Click Next. The Disk Selection page appears. 19 - ASRock ALiveNF4G-DVI | RAID Utility for Windows Guide - Page 20
5. Select the drive that you want to rebuild by clicking it from the list, then click Next. The Completing the NVIDIA Rebuild Array page appears. 6. Click Finish. More About Rebuilding Arrays • Rebuilding Occurs in the Background The rebuilding process
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1. Enter NVRAIDMAN
RAID driver is built in nVidia ALL in one driver provided in our support
CD. After you finish the driver installation, you can create, delete, or
rebuild any RAID array. Please enter NVRAIDMAN by clicking on
Start
Programs
NVIDIA Corporation
Mediashield
Mediashield.
(There is also a “Mediashield” shortcut on the desktop.)
Then, the below screen appears.
RAID Utility for Windows