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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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HDD visible in BIOS and WD Dashboard, but not in Win10 Disk Manager
I have two WD Blue and two WD Red drives. All were working perfectly fine on my Win10 PC up until I have reinstalled the system. Now I only see two WD Red drives.
When I connect these (Blue) drives ...
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Desktop PC with RAID won't boot
I'm trying to fix my dads PC (Windows 10) being on holiday at my parents place. He has a RAID Volume installed, built of 2 SATA discs where at least one disk seems to be corrupt - it makes an ugly ...
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How to move a Storage Space to a new computer?
Previously, I had installed Windows 11 Pro on a 240GB boot SSD. In addition to the boot SSD, I also had 4x1TB disks connected, configured in Windows as a Storage Spaces RAID5 pool. My boot drive ...
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