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Setting up a RAID HD for video editing
Howdy all!
This is something I’m new to so please excuse my ignorance, I’ve been researching it online but now I’ve come to a loss at the first hurdle; the installation.
I’ve bought a 2TB Western Digital HDD to use with my Prem Pro CS3 software. The manual on the CD says to install the software on the CD (done) right click on the disc tray WD logo, right click again on the drive to get to the disc management window (done) and then the initialize/convert wizard will open. Only it never does. The disc does say its online however, so does that mean its initialized anyway? Rather than having a total black line of unallocated space, the new HD is nearly totally blue, so I can’t make a new volume/partition anyway.
Any help at all on this would be greatly appreciated!
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Black, blue, online, How about, Win or Mac?????
Chris
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[Jonathan Buck] “The disc does say its online however, so does that mean its initialized anyway?”
Yes, sounds like the disk is already initialized.
What does it say underneath the blue line? It should list the volume name and drive letter, some information about the size and format, and some information about the partition itself, such as follows:
Media (E:)
558.91 GB NTFS
Health (Primary Partition)If you have only one disk, you cannot set up a RAID [link].
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To answer my own question the computer already initialized the disc, but didn’t allow me to format it since I had a blue line, not a black line of unallocated space. To fix this I simply right clicked on the black line, clicked delete volume, then I right clicked again once the black bar appeared, allowing me to create a partition (in my case two in the same drive.) Hope this helps anyone else struggling.
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