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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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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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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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Why is BIOS switching from IDE to RAID mode?
Acer Aspire M3203. BIOS will randomly default HDD interface to RAID mode and fail to boot Windows 7, claiming there is no RAID array defined and, subsequently, "no boot device." If I go into BIOS and ...
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Checking drive healh of RAID 0 with MOBO built-in RAID
I have the following MOBO: IPMTB-TK (Truckee) motherboard for HP Pavilion Elite HPE-490t.
I have 2 WD Blacks in RAID 0 mode. I was wondering if there is a way to view the status of each drive and it'...
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Software RAID-1 on Windows 7 doesn't work as expected
Because of problems with the RAID config on my motherboard, I've decided to go the "easy" way and use software RAID.
So I made one big mirrored partition on my two identical hard drivers. I copies a ...
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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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RAID vs AHCI for backup
My SSD with Windows 7 recently crashed, so I'm going to purchase a new SSD and install Windows 7 to replace it. I'll also have to reinstall all the drivers for my hardware (motherboard, graphics card, ...
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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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