Windows 7 raid support

You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Palcouk Volunteer Moderator. In reply to EricKolotyluk's post on January 12, Answered by:. Archived Forums. Windows 7 Installation, Setup, and Deployment. Sign in to vote. If the older servers can do it, why can't the new workstations?

Thursday, December 31, PM. Thanks, Matt. Marked as answer by mdewell Wednesday, October 12, PM. Wednesday, October 12, PM. Hi mdewell, Raid 5 is not support in Windows 7 using software raid. Windows 7 do support hardware-based RAID using a hardware raid controller. This is by design. BTW, I'd like to forward your request to our related team. Or you can submit your idea through Microsoft Connect. Get a hardware RAID card. B00nie [H]F Junkie.

Joined Nov 1, Messages 9, Johannes Krauser II said:. Click to expand If all that becomes too challenging for you, forget RAID alltogether. Last edited: May 14, Joined Feb 19, Messages 18, Johannes Krauser II - Are you sure it's not available in 7?

I know I used it before in 7, but maybe it was Pro, it's been a long time ago. Go Into Disk Manager, scroll down and in the bottom pane, click Disk 0 or Disk 1 and right click on one of the drives on the far left box, does it say "New Raid-5 Volume" possibly grayed out? It's greyed-out, and stays grayed-out. Win7 and server 08 have the same gui and menus, but the actual volume manger is different. That's why there is the grayed-out option.

Blue Fox [H]F Junkie. Joined Jun 9, Messages 11, Windows 7 does not support creating software RAID 5 arrays. You may be able to work around this by creating a RAID5 array under Windows Server and then transfering the disks to your Windows 7 machine. B00nie said:. It's exactly the opposite. Software raid is your worst option. Get a real RAID card with it's own chip and you can transfer it from computer to another with no problem.

A software raid requires drivers and is installation dependent where a hardware raid is totally transparent to the OS, it's just another drive. Are you sure? Software RAID 5 in win7 pro? Blue Fox said:. No, this is completely wrong. It is far more flexible than being restricted to a specific brand of RAID card.

If you create a software RAID array under Windows, it will be recognized by just about any other Windows installation. This is also no different on other operating systems eg mdadm under Linux. KarsusTG 2[H]4U. Joined Aug 27, Messages 3,