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Is it possible to create password protected drives in on shared network storage (NAS) on windows?
Goal:
To have Raid 10 on NAS for home office.
It will have files that users share with each other, under public folder, and files that are private to each user but stored for backup reasons on the ...
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Intel RAID client : "Mark as Normal" for RAID1 member - what's the significance of that?
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RAID client software help text doesn't cover RAID 1 for failed disk status.
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I am using a two disk RAID 1 array on Windows 10 Pro.
The RAID client software reports one of the two ...
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How to activate disk that was originally in Windows RAID 1
I took HDD from a computer that was running RAID 1. I have inserted that drive into another computer expecting it to be immediately recognized. It is not recognized, and Windows can't activate it.
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How to migrate Windows 2012 RAID 1 array to Linux?
I have a pair of RAID 1 disks that were created under Windows 2012 Server. The OS disk has failed and I no longer have access to the Windows licensing keys I had when the box was setup (I'm no longer ...
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Weird drive conflict in windows 10 with some programs
I've got a RAID1, and an EX-RAID1 that was de-raided and is now a standard disk. In some programs, such as the duplicate finder I use, it seems to think both are the same disk. i.e. :E:\<->L:\, ...
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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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Mystery partitions with dynamic disk RAID 1
I have mystery hidden partitions at the beginning and end of the hard drives in my Windows RAID 1 volume and I am trying to find out what their purpose is.
Here is the scenario -
Before installing ...
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Home Backup Storage Configuration
I'm in the planning phase of overhauling backups at home.
Currently, I use CrashPlan Free to backup all the machines to an external hard drive on a server running Server 2008R2.
Since this external ...
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FakeRAID array is failing, why?
We have a Windows XP system with an AMD mainboard (GA-890GPA-UD3H) and we are using the onboard RAID capability.
The system is configured in RAID 1 (using the tool AMD RAIDXpert). It consists of two ...
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Can I dual-boot Linux on a Windows-based software RAID?
I currently have a Windows box with many drives in it. Many of them are in pairs, using a software RAID 1 via Windows 7, which supports mirroring. The drives in the RAID are all formatted as NTFS.
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2-Bay External HDD Enclosure in JBOD mode fails to detect both drives (Linux & Windows)
I recently purchased a couple of USB 3.0 External HDD Enclosures to use for storage and backup; the idea was to have one act as backup to the other, with 4 x 3TB drives in total. However, the second ...
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nVIdia MediaShield RAID 5 supported in Windows 7?
I have an nForce 430 board and I want to use it's RAID 5 support with Windows 7. I can't make heads or tails about whether the latest 2011 drivers from nVidia will let me set this up. Some pages say ...
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Hardware RAID 10 for dual-boot system
I'm considering setting up a dual boot configuration with a RAID 10 setup , provided by the motherboard - Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS4.
Will there be any issues with set up considering that I plan on dual-...
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Windows Storage Pool stuck in ReadOnly state
So to make a long story short(er), I suspect I had a bad SATA card. I have a 8 drive storage pool in Windows 11 in Storage Spaces (1 parity) that's been running great for a few months. Suddenly it ...
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Creating a RAID-5 using Storage Spaces in Windows 11
I want to try the new Storage Spaces in Windows 11. Some years ago I bought an external enclosure with 5-bay for hard drives and also provide RAID 5 functionality out-of-the-box. It works pretty good ...
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