I bought 2 Lenovo thinkstation E31 and I want to set up RAID
1 on them.
I added a hard drive for each. I went in the BIOS and set it to RAID
then I pressed ctrl-l
to start the raid manager but it disappear after 2 seconds. I don't know if it's because Windows 7 is already installed but in the user manual it says that the RAID
will only works for windows 7 users so I installed it first with the lenovo partition.
I read on forums that setting RAID
formats the disk but I got the secret partition and I don't wanna lose it. Also, in windows 7 when I go in computer, I don't see the second hard drive and the Intel hard driver manager pops up saying I got an another drive ready.
From that, I can set the RAID
but will it be a software RAID
? I would prefer a hardware RAID
cause it's faster.
Does anyone can explain how I could get the hardware RAID or why the ctrl-l
windows doesn't work.
Thank you