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Recovering NTFS after erroneous mount as Software RAID

I did something very stupid because I did not back up before performing such operations, but I am trying to restore what I can restore. We had a server which has malfunctioning motherboard. It had ...
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How to Switch from RAID to IDE/SATA without BIOS acces

At the company we have a Laptop HP Elitebook 8770w which has some problems with booting. We had an SSD to boot from and a 2nd HDD. The Windows 7 OS is installed on the SSD. Now we have removed the SSD ...
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4HDDs in RAID 10 One specific disk becomes degraded during every reboot. Is the disk bad? Smartmoontools information included

So this all began about 6 months ago when I swapped in a new motherboard. The RAID had previously been my main drive that I booted into. I upgraded cpus which meant a mobo upgrade, and along with that ...
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How to resize the partition of a RAID 1 logical volume on Windows 7

Six years ago I created a RAID 1 logical volume with AMD RAIDXpert and installed Windows 7. The logical volume hosts two partitions for c: drive and d: drive. How do I resize the partitions (to make ...
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Windows 10 Couldn't boot, replaced HDD, only recognized in bios using SATA0 or SATA1?

Suffered some sort of failure where my computer wouldn't boot (Windows 10). After trying a few recovery methods unsuccessfully, I figured it was a bad drive, bought a replacement (WD Blue 1TB), but ...
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External HDD is causing second drive to unallocate (disappear)

I am running Windows 7 x64 and have two drives, C and D. D is within a RAID array running under Intel Rapid Storage Technology (IRST). The external HDD in question is a CN Memory Spaceloop 2TB 3.5'' ...
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Win 7 won't recognize 850 Evo single disk with HDDs in RAID1

This has managed to drive me nuts: I used to have 1 SATA HDD as a single drive for OS's and 2 SATA HDDs set-up as RAID1 using the onboard AMD controller for storage, everything was fine. I bought this ...
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recovering a raid 0 after reinstalling windows 7

thanks in advance for your help, I have made a clean install of windows 7 to my system today to an SSD, along the ssd I have another ssd and 2x 1tb disks in Raid0. Only difference to the former ...
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Multiple HDDs hanging constantly

I have an AMD Windows 7 system which has its OS on an SSD, and until previously had a single 4TB HDD as a data drive. I never had an issue with that drive until I installed a second 4TB drive and put ...
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RAID 0 now showing as "unallocated"

I have a 6TB RAID 0 consisting of 2x3TB WD Red drives. It's been working fine but recently I went on my PC (which was still turned on and had been for a few weeks) and the whole partition was showing ...
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Mirror new HDD with old (raid 0) HDDs

So after fighting every day with my slow 3TBx2 Raided HDDs I decided to get a new one that's just 4TB (as I don't use more than 2TB currently). It's a WD Black HDD that looks really promising. There'...
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Recovering 1TB hard drive split into two 500GB drives without formatting

I am using Windows 7 and am trying to recover two working drives. The hard drive in question was: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822204022 I am pretty sure they were ...
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Add space from 3TB unto 4TB using raid, how?

I would like to expand my 4 TB drive by adding on drive space from my 3 TB drive. I assume this is possible in a raid configuration by resizing the partion on the 3 TB to free space then using ...
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Raid Setup, 2 Hard drives - one shows in explorer

I got a new pc delivered to me and I go to start up the PC using a raid configuration. I then go to are you happy with these settingsand I select yes. Later on, I then notice that one of the hard ...
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Dell Precision T3500 Intel Rapid Storange Technology shows no Acceleration option?

I have a Dell Precision T3500 with a 2TB HDD with my OS installed and a brand new 128GB SSD which is not formatted. The SATA mode is set to RAID in BIOS and the latest version of the Intel Rapid ...
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