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The Disk Management utility has three main sections to the right of the navigation tree:
• System listing of all formatted and available disks/RAID Groups (labeled 1 in the image).
• Report of physical connections for disks/RAID Groups (labeled 2 in the image). Every disk
should display Basic, a Disk Size value (available disk space is reported here), and Online.
Instead of Basic, a disk may be marked Unknown, Dynamic, or Not Initialized.
If a disk is marked Unknown, right-click the disk icon and select Write Signature. A
window opens with the disk in question (all Unknown disks may appear in this window).
Make sure the box next to each disk is checked and click OK. The disk should now be
marked as a Basic disk.
If a disk is marked Dynamic, right-click the disk icon, and select Revert to Basic Disk.
Within seconds, the disk should be marked as a Basic disk.
If a disk is marked Not Initialized, right-click the disk icon, and select Initialize Disk. An
additional dialog box appears allowing you to select which disks to initialize. Uncheck the
Config Disk item and click OK. Within seconds, the selected disk(s) should be marked as a
Basic disk.
• Report of partition status, disk letter, and volume name (labeled 3 in the image). The order in
which the drives are listed corresponds to the order the RAID sets appear in the BIOS. The
first Unallocated Partition represents Set 1, and so on. In this example, there are two disks
with unallocated partitions.
3. Right-click the partition of the first disk to allocate and select Create Partition from the pop-up
menu.
4. Click Next to acknowledge the introductory window to the Create Partition Wizard.
Note: If an external storage enclosure (such as the SV2000) is connected to the external SATA
ports of the RAID controller, one or more additional disk devices may appear with a name of
“Config Disk SCSI Disk Device” and a red indicator to show that it is not available. This is
normal behavior for Windows, and those disk items should be ignored.