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Can I create a RAID 1 array with a drive that already has data?
I am moving an IDE drive from a customer's old desktop into his new one. I want backup the old drive (drive 1) to a new drive (drive 2) before moving it to the new computer. Afterwards, I want to ...
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Why Windows 7 will not install when using Marvell MST644R HyperDuo?
I recently wanted to upgrade my desktop by adding a VANTEC (Marvell) UGT-MST644R (2mSATA + 2SATA) Raid card with HyperDuo capability. I also purchased two 240Gb SSD cards that fit directly on the ...
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Recovering NTFS after erroneous mount as Software RAID
I did something very stupid because I did not back up before performing such operations, but I am trying to restore what I can restore.
We had a server which has malfunctioning motherboard. It had ...
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How to Switch from RAID to IDE/SATA without BIOS acces
At the company we have a Laptop HP Elitebook 8770w which has some problems with booting. We had an SSD to boot from and a 2nd HDD. The Windows 7 OS is installed on the SSD. Now we have removed the SSD ...
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Change SATA mode to AHCI before reinstalling Windows on new drive - possible lose of data on non raid drive?
Currently I've got 5 HDD connected to my PC: 1 is the OS drive, 2 are connected into raid0 volume0, 2 are connected into raid0 volume1 (the volume numbers might be wrong, I'm writing this from memory, ...
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See disk disk information Windows Server 2012
This should not be this difficult, but I can not figure out how to see what/how many drives are being used for the server, and how they are configured (RAID ?).
I THINK I have 7 physical drives (all ...
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How to copy RAID 0 array with failing drive to single drive
I'm using the Intel SATA RAID Controller built into my motherboard.
I'm using it in RAID 0 mode with two 1TB Samsung HD103SJ drives.
One of the Samsung drives is reporting an error.
On the same ...
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AMD Raid (RaidXpert) and expanding RAID 1 logical drives
Here's the setup. I've got an old machine with basic RAID 1 arrays.
Basically, 4 physical drives were used to create 2 logical drivers in RAID 1, each filled to the brim. Also, the machine is running ...
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4HDDs in RAID 10 One specific disk becomes degraded during every reboot. Is the disk bad? Smartmoontools information included
So this all began about 6 months ago when I swapped in a new motherboard. The RAID had previously been my main drive that I booted into. I upgraded cpus which meant a mobo upgrade, and along with that ...
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Can I safely use the Windows 7 Disk Management tool to format my hardware RAID 1 setup?
I have spent the last 3 days banging my head against a wall trying to get a RAID 1 setup working on my Windows machine. I have finally gotten the hardware RAID drivers setup (loaded them during an OS ...
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HDD painfully slow only on my computer
I have Dell Vostro 3560 that has Intel Rapid that makes a hybrid RAID with an internal SSD to optimize performance. Just to check things I disabled it to test the pure HDD performance without help ...
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How to resize the partition of a RAID 1 logical volume on Windows 7
Six years ago I created a RAID 1 logical volume with AMD RAIDXpert and installed Windows 7. The logical volume hosts two partitions for c: drive and d: drive.
How do I resize the partitions (to make ...
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If I remove one HDD from a RAID0-with-striping, is it impossible to read data from remaining HDD?
I have a laptop with a virtual hard drive composed of two 500GB Hitachi HDDs set up using Intel Rapid Data Storage RAID0 striped configuration.
The Windows installation became corrupted and I haven't ...
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Windows 10 Couldn't boot, replaced HDD, only recognized in bios using SATA0 or SATA1?
Suffered some sort of failure where my computer wouldn't boot (Windows 10). After trying a few recovery methods unsuccessfully, I figured it was a bad drive, bought a replacement (WD Blue 1TB), but ...
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External HDD is causing second drive to unallocate (disappear)
I am running Windows 7 x64 and have two drives, C and D. D is within a RAID array running under Intel Rapid Storage Technology (IRST). The external HDD in question is a CN Memory Spaceloop 2TB 3.5'' ...
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