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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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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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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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INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE after the installation of the AMD raid driver on a new Windows 10 installation
I've a reinstalled Windows 10 on the same m2 drive where it was before (non-raid), with the same 2xSATA drives setup in RAID-1 used only for data storage.
After, I've installed the AMD RAIDXpert ...
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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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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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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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Is it safe to write files to RAID 1 Windows disks when Windows is shutdown?
I have created a RAID 1 (mirror) array with 2 hard drives. The RAID is built within Windows as dynamic disks; i.e., there is no hardware RAID controller. Now I need to store a backup file to one of ...
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Setup Storage Spaces or RAID on Windows partition
I have a 4 years old 500GB Samsung Evo SSD and I'm afraid it could fail, so I'd like to get a new one and setup RAID or Storage Spaces.
I'm curious if I can do the RAID without having to format my ...
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Maximum Harddrive size for Storage Spaces?
I'm attempting to set up a software RAID1 of 2*8TB drives and after encountering the incredibly slow syncing of Windows' mirroring system (both drives are empty) in disk management I looked around and ...
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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 to Know the Progress of RAID1 Rebuild on Windows?
I have just installed Windows 10 on my RAID1 array which has 2 disks. And I'm now doing some tests. I unplugged one disk and booted into the OS, then replugged it back, and restarted. Now I see the ...
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