Help with my new m17x's raid 0

I recently became a proud owner of an Alienware m17x laptop and I am having a slight problem with it. I ordered my Alienware with 640g 2x 320 hard drives in raid 0. Now I have never had the luxury of having raid setup before and didn't know much about it besides the fundamentals. When I first started using it I was way too excited to check how big the hard drive was and started installing stuff onto it. The eventually I checked and it read 174g of 283g free and started wondering did they make a mistake? I eventually realized that I had to install it myself, again this is my first raid setup . I believe I set it up correctly via the raid configuration setup during the computers boot up. I went into it and set up new array in stripes mode and set it to the optimum setting, then created the array. Then I booted it up and it still reads the same thing.

Just wondering if I am a complete idiot and completely missed a step or did something wrong, so I turn to you fine gentlemen for help.

P.S. Does anyone else's "a" button stick?

 

Start - > Control Panel -> Administrative Tools - > Computer Management -> Disk Management

Then post a screenshot of that window.

It will look something like this, except that mine is not in a RAID configuration. This will help us troubleshoot what you have going on.

 

ok I just partitioned it but cannot set up new striped volume, am I going to have to wipe the drives clean and set one up when they are both fresh and the same amount of space on them?

 

I think so, that is what I did. When I went to create the RAID it told me it needed to format the drives, so I did and it just sorta works..I would back up your files and start with 2 completely clean HDD's.

 

You're only running on Disk 1, which is technically your second drive. Your Primary HD is not initialized yet. I'm shocked noone is helping you with this, and I've never actually done it, or else I would talk you through it, but I can tell from your screen grab that your primary drive is not initialized, partitioned, or formatted.

 

This is what I thought when I saw this post last night, It was very late..
Mine is RAID0 aswell but I only see 1 partition... But I am affraid you have to reformat everything from scratch and setup your RAID configuration. If that doesn't work. I would call DELL (because I would figure there is something wrong with one of your HDD's).
So theoraticaly your HDD's are not even in RAID0 right now.