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Will my RAID0 stay intact when I move it to a new computer?
My primary drive is a 250GB WD SATA drive. So, I added 2x 500GB 7,200 RPM WD SATA drives into my Windows Vista box and created a 1TB RAID0. I then formatted the the primary drive and installed Windows ...
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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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BIOS setting: AHCI or RAID (when using SSD + 2x hard drive in RAID-0)
I want to add a new SSD and use it as system drive with Windows 7 x64 installed.
As driver I chose newest Intel Rapid Storage driver (not MSAHCI). I know that I have to use AHCI as BIOS setting for ...
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Too many drives?
I've just added some hard drives to my PC and it's having strange results.
I'm running an Asus P5N-E SLI motherboard with an Intel Quad Q6600 chip and 4x2GB Corsair XMS2 6400 RAM. For power usage ...
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RAID for a home PC
I have a home PC with two identical physical drives (SATA), ASUS P5Q-EM motherboard and Windows 7. HDD 1 has two partitions C: and D:, Windows is installed on C: and everthing else is on D:.
Now the ...
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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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How to salvage data from failing RAID0 array
I've got two 1.5TB drives in a RAID0 array, one of which is starting to make the signature failure noises. The data on these disks isn't very important but I would like to salvage as much of it as I ...
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Formatting a former RAID 0 drive through USB
I'll try to be as specific as possible here:
I was using two Hitachi 2.5" 500 gb HDDs in my Gateway P-7805u laptop in a RAID 0 configuration. The array was causing the laptop to run extremely hot, ...
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Win7 soft-RAID failed, computer "jumped back in time"
I just rebooted my computer and upon logging into Windows, things seemed a little bit "off". I figured out rather quickly that everything was like it was two weeks ago. It was literally like ...
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HDD painfully slow only on my computer
I have Dell Vostro 3560 that has Intel Rapid that makes a hybrid RAID with an internal SSD to optimize performance. Just to check things I disabled it to test the pure HDD performance without help ...
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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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Faster SSD performance as cache drive or regular boot drive?
I have the choice of setting up a system:
with two SSD Drives in RAID 1 mode as my boot drive for Windows 7 64-bit, with the Program Files and User folders moved to a second regular hard drive, also ...
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Rebuilding a RAID 1 without data loss, recover from unallocated partition data
Mobo: ASUS P8Z77-M/Pro Gen 3
RAM: 32GB (4 x 8GB)
Power Supply: corsair HX850
HDDs:Configuration before the problem:
1 x 128GB SSD for Windows 7 professional 64-bit
2 x 3TB drives in RAID 1 on the ...
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Windows 7 took over my computer?
Yesterday, I had RAID installed on my computer with Windows 7. I deleted the RAID so it would wipe both drives, and then installed Ubunutu on the first HD. Today, I went into Ubuntu, used Gparted to ...
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How can I restore RAID 0 on my DELL laptop?
I have been formating my dell laptop for quite a while, I bought it back in 2012, with one year warranty, it ended last august, but I think since the moment I formatted it to windows 8.1 I probably ...
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How do I reset a disk to non-RAID?
I had a couple SATA hard disks in a RAID 1 array. I reset them to non-RAID in the Intel raid manager, and removed one drive.
Despite the raid controller saying it's not a RAID disk, and even ...
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How to replace SSD boot disk when computer has RAID 1 data disk connected to it in Windows 7
I am current using a computer (Intel I7) with a 60GB SSD and two 2TB drives in a RAID 1 configuration. The 60 GB drive has the Windows 7 operating system on it and the RAID disks are used for data.
I ...
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Can I create a RAID 1 array with a drive that already has data?
I am moving an IDE drive from a customer's old desktop into his new one. I want backup the old drive (drive 1) to a new drive (drive 2) before moving it to the new computer. Afterwards, I want to ...
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Fix Intel RAID0 array, one of disks has bad blocks
I've got an issue with a firmware Intel RAID0 array. It consists of 2 disks 500 GB each. The second disk has several bad sectors, and I can't remap or hide them (they are 8 LBAs or 4096 bytes). I ...
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HDD + SSD Raid 0, does it make sense?
On my laptop, I have a 22GB SSD and a 500GB HDD. I just reinstalled Windows and because of some problems, I reset everything in Intel RST. In the end I ended up using a 44GB Raid 0 partition, but now ...
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Can I go from noraid to raid1 to an existing Windows installation?
I am planning to switch from Ubuntu to Windows 7 for my HTPC and later add an extra 3TB disk.
Can I install Windows 7 on a 3TB disk and later add a disk and upgrade it to 2x3TB software raid1 without ...
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Will a Win7 RAID drop less than a fakeraid?
Up till recently I was using a 5 disk, 2TB, Raid-0 without any problems. However I added another drive bringing it up to 6 disks. Now the Raid drops and I have to reboot Windows to get it back. This ...
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AMD Raid (RaidXpert) and expanding RAID 1 logical drives
Here's the setup. I've got an old machine with basic RAID 1 arrays.
Basically, 4 physical drives were used to create 2 logical drivers in RAID 1, each filled to the brim. Also, the machine is running ...
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Software or Hardware?
Hi guys i have a Server 2008 R2 thats a supermicro Duel Xeon 1366 box 12gb DDR3, that i use for file storage and WDS and little Vmware Workstation 12 stuff.. The issue am having
its loaded with 2 ...
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Failure of 1 SSD in Raid-0 that was bootdrive stopping computer from booting
I've spent 4+ hours searching this site and Google for someone to have/address my issue, and have had no luck so far, so I was wondering if someone could help me. Thank you!
My computer has 2 32 GB ...
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Migrating to a bigger hard drive
My PC is a Dell Inspiron T3500, running a Xeon 3530, and 12GB DDR3 RAM.
I am currently running two WD Velociraptor drives, 300GB each, in RAID format, so it appears as one ~600GB hard drive on my PC. ...
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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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Dell Studio Slim 540s JBOD RAID
I'm working on a Dell Studio 540s that has dual 750GB drives in what appears to be a JBOD configuration. The computer reports "Missing operating system" at boot. The BIOS appeared to have been wiped/...
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SATA-II SSD Raid 0 slow on Windows-7
I have 2 SSDs and made a RAID 0 with the on-board controller of my mainboard.
But i only get 130 megabyte/second average read/write speed which seems to be pretty slow for me even for SATA 2 which ...
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Trying to clone raid (striped) To USB Hard Drive
I am trying to clone a raid drive that was striped over to an external USB hard drive.
I have tried Paragon in both clone and image and restore, EaseUS in both clone options, and Acronis. Nothing ...
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