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Keeping RAID drives with OS as a backup while setting up SSD as the new primary drive
I am purchasing a workstation with 4x2TB HDD in RAID 10 as the primary drive with the OS (Windows). I want to replace this setup with a 1TB NVME SSD to
speed up reading and writing to disk.
I do not ...
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How can I retrieve folder structure in Windows?
I had a Windows 10 installation on a 4 SSDs RAID 0 array which I lost 3 days ago. I have rebuilt the array and reinstalled Windows right after the incident.
The thing is that I had some files and ...
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How to access data on raid 0 drives where Windows XP is corrupt?
Have an old computer where I set up two 80GB HDDs using raid 0 on Windows XP. It's been dormant for several years and decided to see if it still worked but I'm unable to load OS (stuck on windows logo ...
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Switch RAID to AHCI without reinstalling Windows 10
My Dell XPS 9560 uses RAID as a SATA controller mode.
After I change it to AHCI, the Windows 10 will not boot.
What should I do if I don't want to reinstall Windows 10?
RAID = Redundant Array of ...
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Two disk in RAID 1, one was offline, one has failed, now the volume is 'At Risk'. Am I safe?
I have a RAID on two disk, one of them (Disk 2) was offline for some weeks, the other (Disk 1) has now the state 'Error'. I checked the S.M.A.R.T logs with some tool says I have RAW read error around ...
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Is there a way to store large volumes of data under a single logical structure without using a spanned volume
I have a Vmware ESXi server running at home.
This has a 6-port SATA motherboard (Asus Z8NA-D6), with the following drives
1TB
2TB
3TB
4TB
4TB
4TB
I have a Windows 10 media server with a system ...
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No Accelerate function on Intel Rapid Storage window
I also have an issue to use Intel RST, the accelaration button does not appear to use a part of a SSD as cache for another disk.
Ive got 2 disks:
SSD with Windows 10
HD with Data
Want the Data to be ...
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M.2 SSD disappeared from Windows, can't install Windows 10 version 1703
I have a new Fujitsu D957, which comes as standard with an M.2 SSD. The company I bought it from have added, at my request, two SATA SSDs and configured them in RAID-1, and made Windows 10 Pro boot ...
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Is it safe to write files to RAID 1 Windows disks when Windows is shutdown?
I have created a RAID 1 (mirror) array with 2 hard drives. The RAID is built within Windows as dynamic disks; i.e., there is no hardware RAID controller. Now I need to store a backup file to one of ...
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How can I safely step away from my RAID 1 setup?
I have about 500 GB of data on two 1TB drives running a mobo hardware RAID 1. I keep running into problems and have decided to back out of all of this and just use the drives like normal HDD's. I want ...
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Setup Storage Spaces or RAID on Windows partition
I have a 4 years old 500GB Samsung Evo SSD and I'm afraid it could fail, so I'd like to get a new one and setup RAID or Storage Spaces.
I'm curious if I can do the RAID without having to format my ...
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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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Disk Was Part of RAID, Now Won't Even "Initialize" In Windows
I had a RAID-0 with two 2TB disks. I moved all useful data off of them, but did not break the "RAIDness" on the system it was operating on. Now, I have moved one of them to another machine, but the ...
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Restore Windows 7 But Raid1
I have a remote pc running win7 with RAID setting; RAID1.
Am I able to do system restore as right now user complaint newly installed application slows down the system.
As my friend suggest, need to ...
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Maximum Harddrive size for Storage Spaces?
I'm attempting to set up a software RAID1 of 2*8TB drives and after encountering the incredibly slow syncing of Windows' mirroring system (both drives are empty) in disk management I looked around and ...
