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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 ...
