So I saw a cheap SATA drive recently and decidedy to buy it since I was running out of room with my current one (Maxtor 160 SATA and the one i got is a Maxtor 200 SATA). Before now I didnt have a RAID config set up, as I didnt need it. After some fiddling with the cables and yadda yadda I got it in and it booted up fine and the BIOS recognized it and all, and previous to this I installed SISRaid. So the HD didnt come up in windows but SISRaid found it, no big deal. So I go to set up JBOD, and it says all data will be lost on all drives, and I boot of my original. Now, Im wondering if theres someway to create the JBOD without haivng all my data erased or should i just set up JBOD with the new drive only, since right now its sitting in my comp doing nothing? Also, I click on my HD and go into properties, then the Hardware tab and it comes up in there too. So what is the best plan of action here? Thanks for the help, Dewman

First off I don't think you mean setting them up as jbod but as a raid level. Since you got the message about losing all your data I know you aren't doing raid 1. So you are either trying to do raid 0 [bad choice for OS] or raid 5. Since both of these raid levels have to stripe the disk there is no way of preserving any data on the disk. Solution is copy off the data and stripe the set. Partition and format then move the data back. What is not clear from your post is if there is data on the drive, or that these drives are independent of the drive with the boot OS. Golly gee wilerkers everyone. Learn to Internet Search

The harddrive i had in tehre to begin with has my OS and it is SATA (my mobo has 4 SATA ports built it) and I didnt have any RAID set up, as far as I know. Then I got this new one, which has nothing, and i want to get it so i can use it, which currently I cannot. I installed the RAID config prog thing that came with my mobo (Foxconn 755/760A01)and put the new HD in there. My comp knows is there but it doesnt come up in my computer or anything. So what I am wondering is how I can get it working? And at the moment i am not able to copy all of my data off of my original HD, and i dotn think i will be able to for a long time, if ever. Yea and I dont really know whaty you are talkign abotu with all that RAID stuff, I dont want to mirror or stripe and what is RAID 5? I just want to get it workin....

Hi ive had the similar prob with a diamondmax9 160 sata which wouldnt work without the raid driver being installed (asus k8vsedx) once the raid driver was loaded tho right click on mycomp/manage/disk management and it allowed me to select as a 'basic drive' (as opposed to dynamic) its worked fine since, whereas jbod may delete your old drive as your spanning two drives into one. (i may be wrong dont know your mobo) btw theres no performance gain with jbod, just another way of making a single drive vol out of several. regards

Jbod is just that, just a bunch of drives. No raid level. A lot of misinformation on the web concerning this. Simple question to ask yourself, why would you call a volume set or spanned volume two names, raid 0 and jbod? You wouldn't. Raid 0 is spanned volumes or simple stripe set. jbod is just a bunch of drives on a raid bus. crazydewman you "I just want to get it workin...." makes me think you expected to see the drive in My Computer. Doesn't work that way. Only drives with partitions and drive letter assignments show up in MC. Go into Disk Manager and see if the added drive is there. If so partition and format it. If not showing up but is being reported by the bios as you boot up, report back. Golly gee wilerkers everyone. Learn to Internet Search

ah, I forgot abotu that. I knew you didnt have to have RAID set up but I would've liked a JBOD but w/e. Yea i went into management and i initialized it and then formatted. works like a charm! thanks for the help! dewman