I recently installed Windows 2003 on a Dell 2650 server. It was setup as an RAID 0 with Windows 2000 Server orginally with a RAID configuration. During the Windows 2003 installation I re-formatted the partitions and created two new partitions. My problem is, I can not see the different RAID drives (I have three individual physical drives installed) I installed the Dell open array manager 3.5 and it does not see the RAID configuration either. Did I miss a setup during the Windows 2003 setup? Thank you

What is the RAID config exactly? Is it three drives in one RAID0 array? If so, you won't see other drives. If the RAID Manager is not seeing any arrays or not working, you probably need to upgrade the firmware on the server components. "Milk was a bad choice!"

Raid0 should never be used on a server. You lose one HD you have lost everything with no hope of recovery. You are only as good as you last tested good backup. Which in 90% of the cases here mean no backup and a complete from scratch reinstall. FYI but hardware raid always reports the array as a single drive which is why you don't see individual drives. after all in an array there is nothing you can do with individual drives. They are in an array. Give a person a fish, they eat for a day. Suggest they internet search and they learn a skill for a lifetime.

You should use R1/R5 Disk's 0, 1 should be set to raid 1 and 2,3,4 should be set to Raid 5 Buddy

One other note: you should load Dell's "server manager" which is free on there website, you might have to break the raid to setup r1/r5 on your perc 3/di. on raid 5 you can setup as many log drives off raid 5. make sure that r/1 is on channel 0 and raid 5 is on Channel 1, if you don't have a channel 1 , you can setup r/1 and r/5 on channel 0. Buddy

AsUser where do you get 5 drives when ClarkArt says there are three? Or is this what you are advising? Give a person a fish, they eat for a day. Suggest they internet search and they learn a skill for a lifetime.