Qosmio F30 - installing new hard drive

Hi,
I have just installed a new hard drive on my Qosmio F30 - It originally only came with one 60 GB hard drive.
The second drive is identical to the first in every way, i.e. 60 GB Toshiba drive.
I have initialised the new drive and it is showing as online and unallocated. I want to use the drive to basically increase my capacity, not as a mirror, and therefore selected this option using the RAID utility.
However when I expelore the C drive, it still only shows the total capacity of the drives as 60 GB. I assume that both drives should be showing as one drive, as 120 GB.
Is the drive working properly?
Thanks

Hi!
Chad is right, you should check the BIOS if the second HDD is recognized properly. Then you can set the RAID that you want. As I understand you right you want RAID 0.
If you dont have the user manual you can download it on the Toshiba website:
http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com => Support & Downloads => Download User Manual
Bye

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