I have machine with three disk drives - Disk 0 500 GB SSD - Disk 1 4TB Mechancial Drive - Disk 2 4TB Mechanical Driver
I am installing windows 8.1 on this machine with SSD being the c:\ drive however, windows installer keeps putting a partition called "System Reserved" on Disk 1 and then splits the disk into a 2047GB partition and a 1678GB partition
What I want to do is mirror the 2TB drives in RAID 1 however, because of the partitioning scheme I have not been able to because the partitions need to be the same size.
I have tried re-installing three times and during install hit Sfit+F10 to get a command prompt then used diskpart to make sure every drive was GPT formatted but still no matter what I have tried windows picks it own partitioning scheme for this one drive.
How can I get windows 8.1 to install itself onto one drive only without using the other drive?