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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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Does software RAID 1 in Windows 7 improve read speeds?
Does software RAID 1 (mirroring) in Windows 7 improve read speeds?
I'd like to set up RAID 1 to help protect my important documents (yes, yes, I know it's not a backup), but performance is also ...
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Is it worth buying SSDs for a RAID?
Im seeing people using SSDs for RAID-0 and getting excellent improvements in read/write rates.
But now there is a good opportunity to acquire another SSD Force Corsair F60 identical to mine. I'm ...
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Rebuilding degraded simple mirror volume ("The plex is missing")
I'm interested in rebuilding a basic degraded dynamic volume without resorting to trivially breaking/deleting and re-creating the volume.
There is no concern about data loss. I hope to use this as a ...
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Any difference between Hardware RAID and Software RAID?
I'm building a new server (Small Business Server 2008), but I can't get the built-in RAID controller (AMD SB700) to work and have basically given up on it ever working with Server 2008. Fine.
But my ...
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Can you link external USB hard drives in a RAID-style system?
I have a load of old external USB hard drives lying around - as I'm sure an increasing number of others do also.
Is there any way I can utilize these to act in some kind of RAID-type system?
Seems a ...
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Looking for tips: building a workstation around Xen and GPU pass-through
I'm building my new home machine right now and as usual this will be a heavily overloaded workstation that will serve as development and testing machine, file server and game console (plus I'm adding ...
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How can I install an AMD RAID driver after Windows installation?
This is similar to this question, but for AMD (or general for all hardware, if such solution exists).
Windows 7 is installed with a SATA controller in AHCI mode. Afterwards, I added two more hard ...
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How to safely remove eSATA drive when it's not in the Safely Remove Hardware dialog
I have Windows 7 32bit which was installed when the SATA devices on my PC (DVD & HDDs) were set as AHCI in the BIOS. Today I added two extra disks that are to be set up as RAID 1 so I went into ...
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My Computer hangs for a few minutes just after startup, and then is fine
So I just built myself a reasonably beefy computer, and I installed Windows 7 on it. However, I start the machine up each morning and within a few minutes, the computer will semi hang.
That is the ...
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How to figure out boot disk from bcdedit?
I have Windows Server 2008 R2 software mirror.
I boot from volume c:.
When i use:
bcdedit
I can see 3 different "Windows Boot Loader" entries with "device partition=C:". How can I figure out ...
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Windows 7 install issues with 2x3TB in RAID1
Not sure what I've done wrong. Built one PC before successfully in a similar way but this one seems to be struggling.
I have the following components:
Mobo: ASUS P8Z68-V/Pro Gen 3 (updated to latest ...
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How do I tell my PC's RAID configuration
EDIT
Just a quick reword of my original question...
Using Windows XP how do I determine which disks/drives/partitions are under the control of of my hardware RAID1 system?
My original question:
My ...
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How does performance scale in a single column 2-way mirrored storage space as more disks are added?
In Windows 8.1 Storage Spaces, there seems to be pretty solid evidence that 2-way mirrored storage spaces have performance that improves significantly as more disks are added to the pool as long as ...
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How to upgrade SSD firmware on Intel RST RAID 0 member disk?
I have a random bunch of SSDs working in an Intel Rapid Storage Technology RAID 0 to serve as my system drive.
To setup an Intel RST RAID drive, in UEFI one must change the SATA controller to RAID, ...
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