Windows Server 2003 restarts while configuring RAID 5

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Some supporting info/evidence

http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/2754/~/hard-drives-greater-than-2-tb-do-not-work-on-existing-operating-systems

This forum thread, the person asking has exactly your issue

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/1663302

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Thank you everyone for your kind support. A small question please: HP server with 1.8TB internal HDD. I plugged one external WD 2TB hard disk and everything is OK.

But when I plugged another external 2TB WD hard disk windows SBS 2011 didn't see it.

May I know whey

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No in fact right now I'm talking about another computer which has an internal HDD with around 1.8TB.

I plugged two external WD HDD (2TB each) and everything was OK.

But when I plugged another external WD HDD (2 TB) windows didn't show the last one.

any ideas.

Perhaps that other HDD is dead? Did you bother testing it in another PC?

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yes it is working fine

Sufficient power?

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maybe I'm not sure.

hwo did you plug the disk on the machine ? SAS ? IDE ? USB ? Fibre ? iSCSI ?

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USB

So you are trying to mix & match a RAID5 with one disk USB, and others attached via some other means? This is universally a no-no.

You cannot create a Raid with disk from differents controller !

if you want to implement raid with usb disks look at this .

http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/usb-20-based-raid-5-solution

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You should deal with the first question you asked rather than piggy-back another onto it. Unsub.