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Is it possible to migrate a boot RAID volume from an older motherboard to a newer one? [duplicate]
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Raid 0 - what happens with the data when hdds plugged into another motherboard
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I am going to upgrade my current setup from an X58 to an X79 and I have 2 RAID ...
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Moving Windows XP from ICH10R RAID 5 to single disk using Linux
A friend's machine running Windows XP refused to boot recently which is running 3 SATA disks on RAID 5 (which was previously upgraded from RAID 1 not by me). I have determined there to be a disk ...
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Can't boot Windows XP after putting HD into another RAID 1 PC
I have an existing Windows 7 system with RAID 1 set up on two HDDs.
I have a third HD from an old computer that has Windows XP Pro SP3 on it. I want to put this HD into the new computer so I can ...
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Is it safe to boot into windows on a computer that has a linux mdraid partition?
I have a linux computer with 5 hard drives. 1 is used by the OS and the other 4 are RAID5 using mdraid and formatted with ext3.
I would like to start dual-booting the computer by installing windows 7 ...
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rebuilding raid array (rocket raid 1740)
so my rocketraid 1740 controller has 4 connectors ..
i set it up with raid 5.
drive on port 4 failed, but it comes back online after computer reboots. array saw this, and started to rebuild the ...
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How to force System Reserved to be created on the boot disk drive
I have machine with three disk drives
- Disk 0 500 GB SSD
- Disk 1 4TB Mechancial Drive
- Disk 2 4TB Mechanical Driver
I am installing windows 8.1 on this machine with SSD being the c:\ ...
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How to Safely Remove Drive from Raid 1
I have a Raid 1 mirror where one of the disk is showing S.M.A.R.T. events so I want to remove it while leaving the data on the other disk intact.
My machine windows 10 64 bit uses Intel Rapid Storage ...
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Drives Disappear when Turning off Raid
I have a Dell Workstation T7610 with a 256 gig SSD and a 2 TB HDD. When I try to disable the raid controller the drives disappear in the boot order. How can I keep the drives active without having ...
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Recommended RAID5 stripe size?
I have a RAID5 array built from 4 1TB drives. I initially set the stripe size to 1M since I will be storing large files (much larger than 1MB). The NTFS cluster size is 64KB (largest possible). ...
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Bad mobo or drives?
I have a gigabyte UDR5 with 12GB Ram, and i7 920. The os runs of 2 x 80GB x25 SSDs in raid0 (mobo software raid) and I have 4 x 320GB raid5 for storage (2 year old drives). Running windows 7 Ultimate ...
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How to identify disks in RAID? Which controller / channel?
I have m/b Asus
RAID 10 on Intel RAIDXpert2
Log says "medium error on controller 1 channel 1". Although 1 disk is offline I dont think it has anything to do with that message as it also says ...
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Disconnecting windows software RAID disks without requiring a resync
I have a working 3TB software RAID volume under Windows 10 on my primary work machine, physically two 3TB rotating rust disk. The boot volume is a separate NVMe SSD. The RAID volume resynchronisation ...
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How do I "simply" "RAID 1" two USB drives without over-complicated schemes?
Update 1:ChironFS is really what I need, but it has been deprecated for more than 10 years now. I'm looking for the same, but still maintained.
I got two old USB keys and also two old hard drives ...
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Single SSD to Raid 1
Sorry ive never done this and want to make sure i dont lose my data, i have a 256GB SSD currently and i want to add a new 256GB SSD and run in raid 1, can i restore a windows image after i have setup ...
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Can I set up a Raid 0 and access it on Mac + Win 10
I have a Z820 with two OS PCIe SSDs:
960 Pro NVMe (Windows 10 OS)
970 Plus NVMe (MacOS Mojave)
Can I set up a RAID 0 storage array [Highpoint 3740A] using two 4TB HDDs, then access the storage array ...
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