How to get mac OS to install on a partition of a Raid 0 Windows Hard drive

[28michael28]

Hello, I'm new to the forum and have been looking around for a while for an answer to this question, If this question has already been asked, I'm sorry for asking it again, but could not find an answer. I just built a new I7 system which has a main drive with windows 7 on a 60GB SSD, and then i have 2x 1TB hard drives in raid 0 for my storage drive. I have 1.3TB of that formated for windows storage and I left the remaining 700GB unformatted for a Mac OS install, but I cant get the Mac OS to recognize its existence. The disk utility recognizes each individual hard drive but not as a raid configuration. I really could not find to much info on this other then that you can not install Mac OS on the same partition as windows cause they are different file formats. But since the raided drive has two different partitions shouldn't i be able to format the other half as a different format? Is there maybe some sort of program that is available to do this? Any help is appreciated!!!!

Thanks in advance!

Michael

Just in case it is of some use this is my system

Processor = i7 920 (hyper-threading turned off)
Ram = DDR3 (3x 2GB) 6gb 7-7-7-20 1600mhz
Motherboard = Asus Rampage II Gene
Video Card = Asus EN8400GS

[milanca]

Hello Michael,

Welcome to InfiniteMac and enjoy your stay here!

You have a great board and the entire system is very much OSX compatible. You could have a perfect clone, i am sure.

Regarding raid, you can't make hardware raid to work with ich10r matrix raid controller. Not supported. Raid system is just a little step beyond a regular installation. You will need a mac os x compatible sata raid card, like hightpoint, rocketraid cards. They are only a bit expensive. There is also a cheaper solution (confirmed working and new 64bit raid drivers released recently) with cards based on sil3132 chipset. Cards are really not expensive, most of all bootable, firmware is flashable.

I was also going for a raid system with the same chipset based sata raid card. I'm just too snowed under with business and work. But pretty soon i am going to order one and setup my raid system with 2x 320gb on raid1 maybe. Almost to forget, they support raid0 and raid1, and they come as 2 port or 4 port cards. If you need anything else feel free to ask.

Kind regards!