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Appendix D - Quick Drive Reformat Instructions
Windows Vista Users’ Instructions (continued)
10. When the Welcome to the New Simple Volume Wizard window
appears, click next to start the process.
11. Follow the remaining steps to complete the process.
Note: If you do not select the quick format option, this process will take
much longer to complete.
12. When the Assign Drive Letter or Path window appears, select
Assign the following drive letter, choose a letter, and then
click Next.
13. When the Format Partition window appears, enter a new
name for the volume table if you’d like. For RAID volumes
up to 16TB, accept the default allocation unit size; for RAID
volumes greater than 16TB, select 8192 from the drop-down
menu. Select Perform a quick format, and then click Next.
14. When the next window appears, click Finish.
15. Repeat steps 9–14 for each remaining “unallocated” disk.
16. Depending on how you configured the RAID groups, the
volumes may already be available to the system. If you
created a DVRAID, RAID 4, RAID 5, or RAID 6 RAID group,
configuration will take much longer. You may check on the
progress by clicking the Monitor button to the left of the
window.
17. Once all the RAID groups have been formatted and finish
building, they are ready to use.
Windows XP/Server 2003 Users’ Instructions
1. Follow all the steps in the included documentation to install
the software and the Sonnet RAID controller, and to set up
and connect the Fusion RAID enclosure.
2. Start your computer, and then turn on the Fusion drive
enclosure.
3. Log into the Sonnet Web Management Tool.
4. Delete the RAID group as described in Deleting RAID
Groups on page 31.
5. Set up new RAID groups following the instructions in
Configure Storage into RAID Groups starting on page 7.
6. Select Computer Management From the Windows Start menu.
If Computer Management is not available in the Start Menu,
select Start > Settings > Control Panel > Administrative Tools.
In the Administrative Tools window, double-click Computer
Management.
7. In the Computer Management window, click Storage on the
left, and then double-click Disk Management.
8. When the Initialize and Covert Disk Wizard window appears,
click OK.
9. When the Select Disks to Initialize window appears, select the
RAID volume(s), and then click Next.
10. When the next window appears, click Finish.
11. In the Disk Management window, each RAID group you
created will appear (listed as “unallocated”) as a single volume.
Right-click where the word “unallocated” appears, and then
select New Partition.
12. When the Welcome to the New Partition Wizard window
appears, click Next.
13. When the Select Partition Type window appears, select Primary
Partition, and then click Next.
14. When the Specify Partition Size window appears, click next.
15. When the Assign Drive Letter or Path window appears, select
Assign the following drive letter, choose a letter, and then
click Next.
WARNING: After selecting the DVRAID, RAID Level 4,
RAID Level 5, or RAID Level 6 option, configuration of
the drives will take several hours to complete, with the
total time depending on the operating system and drive
capacities.