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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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Create a Spanned drive with 3 external hard drives
I'm trying to create a merged drives from 3 externals drives (2*3Tb + 1 * 2Tb) on Windows.
I went to diskmgmt.msc and tried to create a spanned drive, but i keep getting the error "Operation not ...
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SSD cache, SRT, Raid 0 : speeding up my C drive
I have a Z97 rig and I'm interested in speeding up my disk drives.
This is my current setup:
1) 240GB SSD for main disk
2) 500GB hard drive for User Files
3) 120GB for photo editing (I move files ...
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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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Problems creating a bootable RAID volume when imaging from HDD to SSD
I have an old Dell XPS420 with an Intel RAID controller on the MB. For years I’ve had RAID 1 enabled on a 2x1TB array set up as two volumes: A 300GB volume which has Windows 7 installed on it and the ...
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Windows 7, can I mirror directories when I got one HHD? (like RAID) [duplicate]
In Windows 7, lets say I have a "works" directory which containts my work, personal etc information. I want to use a program which always checks the disk and make mirror(s) of this directory. ...
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Intel RAID controller failing to diagnose faulty disk
On my system (running Windows 7 x64) I have an Asus Z87 Deluxe motherboard, with a built-in Intel RAID controller; my config includes a Kingston 240GB SSD disk for the OS and two Western Digital 4TB ...
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Disk drives not detected by Windows installation but are detected by Bios
I just built myself a new computer and I'm having issues installing Windows 7 Professional (legit copy) on my RAID array I setup.
Specs:
Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 rev. 4.0
AMD FX-8350 Vishera 4.0GHz
2x ...
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my computer hard-locks up with heavily threaded disk access
short of reformatting, I don't know what to do. It passed both C: and D: NTFS disk error checking (chkdisk at boot).
I recently transitioned my D: data drive from RAID AHCI (BIOS config, though not ...
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How to recover RAID0 lost after a upgrade to Windows 8.1
How can I recover software RAID 0 after formatting my primary OS drive?
I had the same issue as this post :
I was previously running Windows 7 on a machine that had 4 physical drives and 1 SSD for ...
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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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Add Mirror for volumes other than the last one in Windows 7 (disk "not up-to-date")
I'm using Windows 7 x64 Ultimate. I have an existing 4TB disk with 3 NTFS volumes, a new 3TB blank disk, and I'm trying to mirror the volumes onto the new disk.
My Windows install is on an SSD which ...
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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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Switch HDD mode from RAID to IDE [closed]
I made an ghost of 2 drives that were installed as raid 0
I made a ghost to one big drive.
Now in the bios, the big drive can only run in raid0 modus.
Is there a easy way so I can run this drive as ...
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Best RAID Solution for dual boot?
I've seen this topic talked about before on this site but with other users using 2 drives for the active partition (booting from the same HDD thats got RAID) however my situation is a bit different.
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