Create a Raid to be used in VISTA

Need some help on this raid. I am running Vista on a MacPro, I want to raid two 500gig external dives.
The raid is just to read files off of. So this is not an OS install thread.
In disk management, I have deleted the volumes, than created a new stripe, selected both drives I want to raid. Assigned a letter, than clicked ok, "There is not enough space on this disk(s) to complete this operation"
So I did it again but allocated only 10 gigs per drive to see what was up. Same out of space error?
For this test I had two internal drives, and the two external drives to raid. No luck? The drives are brand new. Any help would be great

nope, don't need to it be cross platform. I think the poster was just trying to give me a work around since he was not familiar with VISTA or how to raid?
All I need is to figure out how to raid two drives in VISTA for external use? The issue I have is, "not enough space on the disk to complete this operation"
I have a 2 500 gig drives. I have tried creating a 1T raid, a 500gig raid and a 20 gig raid. All produce the same error? I have screen grabs of everything. I have bought a raid, but now I can not use it. The raid works fine in OSX. All my expensive software is run on the PC though. All I want to do is a simple raid.
Humm? Hope someone can help me out with this soon! I am so stuck

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