Hi
Benn600I have carefully read your 2 posts
You definitively need to register to the specific Windows Home server forum:
http://forums.microsoft.com/WindowsHomeServer/default.aspx?SiteID=50and read there some useful posts, then, write there some of your useful questions
What I know about WHS comes from this forum
It seems that you go in a wrong way :
The WHS needs, following my modest experience, to start from a new hardware unit (or try to rebuild, as me, a Server with a non used MB, GC, CPU etc..)
Then, install an HD even modest (100 Go for ex) and install on it the WHS demo OS
Then, install one or more HD for data, first on the IDE and SATA MB connectors, then, only in needed, on IDE and/or SATA PCI add-on cards
It seems to me that :
RAID mode has not to be chosen in MB Bios setup, for IDE 3 and SATA MB connectors
RAID mode has not to be chosen on IDE and/or SATA PCI add-on cards driver setup
If you Love RAID mode only by it's secure mirroring mode, you will be able to choose, inside WHS setup, the "Automatic Data duplication mode"
It's important to know that, when you add an new HD in a WHS, and if you want to add it to the global store volume, you must ask WHS to format it in a specific mode; no matter if this HD has been formatted or not before (Fat or Ntfs, or comes directly from factory)
Recently, I wanted to replace an 120 Go HD by a 1To HD; I asked first WS to disconnect the 120gb; for this, WHS transferred the 120 Go data (It was far from full) to another HD; then, the 120 Go HD was out of the global store volume; I disconnected it and I replaced it by the new one, without any formatting, and asked WHS to integrate it in the global store volume: WHS formatted it and no problem
Don't forget that, in WHS concept, there is no more VOLUME idea (C:, D:, E:, F: ..)
On my WHS which has 6 HD, I have a "System" and a "DATA" zone
The System zone is on the first partition on the boot HD, the Data zone starts from the second partition of the boot HD to the last of the 5 other HD.
You cannot know where a specific data is (on what HD ?)
If I were you, I would try to mount a new hardware unit,
independent of all you have, with some unused pieces (case, MB, CPU, RAM, old GC, old KB , old display )
You will find an unused IDE HD for the system HD (Boot Sata HD is possible, but, before, you must write the specific SATA driver somewhere (CD, USB key) to help WHS boot DVD, when installing OS on the SATA boot HD)
Don't throw out the WHS concept !
In my case, I had more than 1To Data on 2 Synology NAS, and it has spent some time to transfer all the data from NAS to WHS
Best regards from France
NB : I apologize for my English language, but schools days are (very) far away ..