Vista - External RAID through Jmicron expresscard esata

Hi, I have an Inspiron 1720 (bad choice in retrospect) that I had been running XP Pro on for quite some time and had created an external RAID with an esata port multiplier. It's an Addonics storage tower with 4 750gb drives in raid 10 and everything worked fine until my internal HDDs kicked the bucket and now that they are replaced, I decided to reinstall using Vista Home Premium 32 bit, got all the drivers and software needed for my raid setup and now the tower shows up, but only as a 373gb unformatted drive . I've got all the most recent drivers and whatnot from Jmicron but the problem still persists. There was never any problem with XP recognizing the drive and I don't want to try and format the drive especially because of the 500gb or so of data that I can't lose. Thanks for all your help,

-Jay

Hello Seventy8, welcome to Vista forums!

If the drives are still using FAT32, Vista requires the NTFS file system.

NTFS - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Later Ted

Nope.

They're NTFS, and the original formatted size, in XP, was 1.4 TB.



I have no idea what could be causing it to appear like this, but the RAID configurer supplied by JMicron shows all 4 HDDs as 698 gb formatted and all of them are in a RAID so... idk. *shrug*

Thanks.

Hello Jay!

I've never used a RAID array so I'm no help there, sorry ...

But plenty of people here do, just keep checking back I'm sure someone will help you!

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Later Ted

Ok. Thanks Ted.

You're welcome Jay; I hope you find a solution!

















Later Ted