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MS-7320 Mainboard Assigning a Dedicated Disk To mark a disk as dedicated, or reserve it for use by a specific array, Step 1: Mark the Disk as a Free Disk 1. Enter the system BIOS setup and make sure that the drive that you want to mark as free is RAID enabled. 2. Boot into W indows and run the NVRAIDMAN program. If the disk is not part of any RAID array, then it will appear under the Free Disk section of the RAID GUI. Step 2: Dedicate the Free Disk to an Array W hile running NVRAIDMAN, dedicate the free disk to an array by doing the following: 1. Right click one of the two Mirrored arrays as shown below. 2. Select Designate Spare from the menu to launch the Spare Disk Allocation Wizard. B-14

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MS-7320 Mainboard
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Assigning a Dedicated Disk
To mark a disk as dedicated, or reserve it for use by a specific array,
Step 1: Mark the Disk as a Free Disk
1.
Enter the system BIOS setup and make sure that the drive that you want to mark as
free is RAID enabled.
2.
Boot into Windows and run the NVRAIDMAN program.
If the disk is not part of any RAID array, then it will appear under the Free Disk
section of the RAID GUI.
Step 2: Dedicate the Free Disk to an Array
While running NVRAIDMAN, dedicate the free disk to an array by doing the following:
1. Right click one of the two Mirrored arrays as shown below.
2. Select
Designate Spare
from the menu to launch the Spare Disk Allocation Wizard.