MP 1,1-5,1 Welcome menu won’t show up after fresh installation on 2006 Mac Pro

[Soba]

@Soba; @DeltaMac; @Nguyen Duc Hieu, Hello all, just want to check, is there a way to combine those hard drives installed at slot 2/3/4 into one logical drive here? For example, have SSD installed on slot 1 and use it as system drive, install 3 1TB drives on slot 2/3/4, and combine these 3 into one 3TB logical drive? Any possible? Thanks again!

If you mean in Windows 10, you should certainly be able to. Here's a quick tutorial:

How To Set Up RAID In Windows 10

Learn how to set up RAID in Windows 10. The OS has made it simple to set up RAID by building on the good work of Windows 8 and Storage Spaces.

www.tomshardware.com

Be sure to keep good backups if you're storing anything on the RAID array that you don't want to lose.

 

[lovecd]

If you mean in Windows 10, you should certainly be able to. Here's a quick tutorial:

How To Set Up RAID In Windows 10

Learn how to set up RAID in Windows 10. The OS has made it simple to set up RAID by building on the good work of Windows 8 and Storage Spaces.

www.tomshardware.com

Be sure to keep good backups if you're storing anything on the RAID array that you don't want to lose.

Yes, I mean in windows 10, will try that. Thanks a lot!

 

[lovecd]

It's actually easy. It will be faster (near 3 time faster)

Create a disk set using Disk Utility on Mac

Use Disk Utility on your Mac to create a RAID set to optimize storage performance and protect your data.

support.apple.com

Thanks, I was referring on windows 10, but good to know this as well.

 

[lovecd]

Yes, I mean in windows 10, will try that. Thanks a lot!

Tried it yesterday, but it gave the error like: failed due to hard drive connection, please try again...

No ideas what that means, those drives are physically connected well, and it shows up on drive management menu. Have you seen this type of error in the past? Thanks.

 

[lovecd]

If you mean in Windows 10, you should certainly be able to. Here's a quick tutorial:

How To Set Up RAID In Windows 10

Learn how to set up RAID in Windows 10. The OS has made it simple to set up RAID by building on the good work of Windows 8 and Storage Spaces.

www.tomshardware.com

Be sure to keep good backups if you're storing anything on the RAID array that you don't want to lose.

Tried it yesterday, but it gave the error like: failed due to hard drive connection, please try again...

No ideas what that means, those drives are physically connected well, and it shows up on drive management menu. Have you seen this type of error in the past? Thanks.

 

[Soba]

Tried it yesterday, but it gave the error like: failed due to hard drive connection, please try again...

No ideas what that means, those drives are physically connected well, and it shows up on drive management menu. Have you seen this type of error in the past? Thanks.

Could you post a photo of the exact error message?

 

[lovecd]

Could you post a photo of the exact error message?

Tried it again today, surprisingly it works now, no ideas why it didn't get through in the past 2 days but succeeded today, really strange. By the way, if "delete volume" option is grey out on the physical drive (not the system C drive) after it is formatted, what could be the reason? And how to enable the "delete volume"?

 

[Soba]

Tried it again today, surprisingly it works now, no ideas why it didn't get through in the past 2 days but succeeded today, really strange. By the way, if "delete volume" option is grey out on the physical drive (not the system C drive) after it is formatted, what could be the reason? And how to enable the "delete volume"?

That volume holds the Windows page file, so the volume cannot be deleted. If you change the location of your page file and reboot, you should then be able to delete the volume. Check here for instructions on where to find these settings:

How To Manage Virtual Memory (Pagefile) In Windows 10

Follow these simple steps to manually manage the Virtual Memory (Pagefile) size in Windows 10.

www.tomshardware.com

You must choose another drive for the page file, then set the size of the page file on the E: drive to 0. (Make sure there is a page file on a drive other than E. Windows will not boot in some cases if there is no page file.)

 

[lovecd]

That volume holds the Windows page file, so the volume cannot be deleted. If you change the location of your page file and reboot, you should then be able to delete the volume. Check here for instructions on where to find these settings:

How To Manage Virtual Memory (Pagefile) In Windows 10

Follow these simple steps to manually manage the Virtual Memory (Pagefile) size in Windows 10.

www.tomshardware.com

You must choose another drive for the page file, then set the size of the page file on the E: drive to 0. (Make sure there is a page file on a drive other than E. Windows will not boot in some cases if there is no page file.)

Thanks a lot, will try it tonight.

 

[lovecd]

Thanks a lot, will try it tonight.

Got the page file changed to C drive, and able to do volume deletion on drive E now, however, try to append drive E into the storage drive made previously but failed with error, see image uploaded, that’s the similar error message got when making the initial storage drive. Any thoughts?

 

[Soba]

Got the page file changed to C drive, and able to do volume deletion on drive E now, however, try to append drive E into the storage drive made previously but failed with error, see image uploaded, that’s the similar error message got when making the initial storage drive. Any thoughts?

When you receive an error like this, your best bet is to Google it using quotation marks so you can find others who have previously encountered (and hopefully solved) the same problem.

This should help:

Storage Spaces Can't Add Drives (Request Is Not Supported Error 0x00000032) - Tech Journey

When trying a add a disk drive to a storage pool of Storage Spaces, whether it’s internal HDD […]

techjourney.net

At this point, these issues aren't really Mac Pro-specific and are more Windows problems, so I suggest a more Windows-focused forum for future troubles of this nature. There is a Windows forum here on MacRumors, also.

 

[lovecd]

When you receive an error like this, your best bet is to Google it using quotation marks so you can find others who have previously encountered (and hopefully solved) the same problem.

This should help:

Storage Spaces Can't Add Drives (Request Is Not Supported Error 0x00000032) - Tech Journey

When trying a add a disk drive to a storage pool of Storage Spaces, whether it’s internal HDD […]

techjourney.net

At this point, these issues aren't really Mac Pro-specific and are more Windows problems, so I suggest a more Windows-focused forum for future troubles of this nature. There is a Windows forum here on MacRumors, also.

Thanks again!