The Application Window

Following is the main window of VIA RAID Tool:

Show/Hide application's main window:

When the application has started, the main window hides itself automatically. To show the application window, you can either double click the application's taskbar icon, or right click its taskbar icon and then click the Open Program command on the popup menu.

To hide the main window, you can click the "Minimize" or "Close Window" buttons on the upper-right corner of the main window.

To exit VIA RAID Tool, you can either click Operation => Exit on the menu bar or right click application's the task bar icon and then select Exit Program.

Layout of application's main window:

There are two panes in the main window:

The left pane presents a current system tree view for disk arrays and disks not in any array. It also shows a tree view that displays RAID controllers, IDE channels and the physical locations of all disks. You can shift these two tree views in left pane by clicking the first toolbar button (button image is or ) or press shortcut key CTRL+H. These two tree views are called Array View(view by devices) and Controller View(view by controllers) respectively. The application window above is an example of the Array View, and the window beneath is an example of the Controller View:

The right pane shows detailed information for the currently selected tree item in the left pane, such as information of a disk, a RAID controller...etc.

You can use the TAB key to shift current focus between the left and right panes instead of clicking in one of these two panes directly by mouse.

Main functions:

By VIA RAID Tool, you can create various types of RAID disk arrays, remove disk arrays, verify&synchronize mirror disks...etc. Further details for these features are presented in the following Functions Overview.