Sorry, but according to this, you cannot create mirrored volumes on computers that are running Windows XP Home Edition, Windows XP Professional, Windows 2000 Professional or Windows XP 64-Bit Edition.
I can't vouch for the accuracy of that link, but it seems to fit with your experience.
You may have to back up your C: drive, then reformat it and start over to create a RAID1 array with the new hard drive.
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November 4th, 2010 21:00
The 63 MB partition on C: is probably the Dell hardware diagnostics that allow you to test the hardware by pressing F12 before Windows starts to load.
Did you format the new hard drive?
Ron
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November 20th, 2010 12:00
I tried both after formatting the new drive and I tried it leaving the new disk unformated - neither works.
A Dell tech said they could tell me how to do it - but they wanted $140 for the tech support call.
I'm pretty sure it's something relatively simple that I'm missing - I've set these up before without any problems.
Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions.
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November 20th, 2010 14:00
Are you sure it's possible to create a RAID1 array in XP when one drive is already in use as a non-RAID drive? - I dunno...
What BIOS setting for SATA Operation are you using? You may have to change it to RAID ON, if it's set to RAID Autodetect/AHCI.
Ron
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Hmmm..... :emotion-7:
Sorry, but according to this, you cannot create mirrored volumes on computers that are running Windows XP Home Edition, Windows XP Professional, Windows 2000 Professional or Windows XP 64-Bit Edition.
I can't vouch for the accuracy of that link, but it seems to fit with your experience.
You may have to back up your C: drive, then reformat it and start over to create a RAID1 array with the new hard drive.
Ron