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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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SATA RAID 0 (striping) configuration under Windows 11
I have a 'semi-newish' desktop I put together (GigaByte motherboard) with 2x M.2 500GB SSDs. I thought I had properly configured them in RAID 0 via the UEFI settings. Yet then today I was adding a ...
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Windows re-install - striped volume not detected
I've reinstalled Windows (moving from two RAID0 NVMe SSDs to a single NVMe SSD), and I've had two Windows striped volumes (2x 1000 GB SATA SSD, 2x 4000 GB SATA HDD) for data.
When reconnecting the ...
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Rebuilding Windows Server 2019 Boot
I have a Windows 2019 Server that has been in service for about 8 months. It is an MSI 670P motherboard and implements a RAID10. It won't boot. Apparently there was a power failure, and the system ...
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Repairing Windows installation that can't boot
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I have an Asus UX51VZ that will no longer boot into Windows. This was my dad's primary computer. I took it to a computer shop so they could fix the fans that came on at full speed all the ...
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Is a Simple Storage Pool the same as software RAID 0 in Windows 10?
I have a single SSD in my PC as a boot drive with two 1TB HDDs that I'd like to setup in RAID 0. I'm not storing anything important in RAID 0, just my Steam library. I figured setting the drives up ...
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How can I create a single partition from three different disks to install Windows on it?
I have 3 disks: 1TB, 512GB and 512GB. Is there any way to create a single 2TB partition and install Windows 10 on it? Data safety is not important.
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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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How to tell if a hard drive with Windows was used in AHCI or RAID mode?
I have a computer with a corrupted windows installation that will not boot into the OS. I am trying to fix the operating system, but I am not sure at this point if the drive was using RAID or AHCI. ...
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How to reformat a hard disk that was previously in a RAID configuration?
I have 2 internal Seagate SATA hard disks that were, at evidence as far as I can judge, mounted in a RAID configuration. These disk have been given to me and were used on another computer.
The 2 disks ...
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Best way to use Windows' RAID 1 to have an hot backup
I'm looking for a way to direct Win10 Pro RAID system to direct the reads to the fast drive in the mirror
I'm on Windows 10 PRO and have regular (but not too frequent) backups of my system.
The system ...
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Mayhem with partitions and GPT: mdadm RAID overwritten by Windows partition - possible to fix partition table?
dear Community,
I’m writing as I may have wrecked my system up.
I launched disk manager in Windows; as one of my disks was not recognized, and as Windows kindly suggested me to initialize the-said ...
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Intel RAID client : "Mark as Normal" for RAID1 member - what's the significance of that?
Summary
RAID client software help text doesn't cover RAID 1 for failed disk status.
Situation
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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Disk operations hang after deleting folder on large NTFS volume
We have a customer system where a disk is completely inaccessible for a long time after deleting files. Typically, the disk is inaccessible for more than 45 minutes.
The system is a production system ...
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Windows 11 22h2, storecli64.exe is not recognized as an internal or external command
Annoyingly, the storcli64.exe starts up, but doesn't recognise any of the commands.
I need to configure my RAID controller and update the firmware, but the download command isn't working either.
The ...
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