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Creating Mirror (RAID 1) on Windows 10 causes not enough disk space error
I have 2 disks (disk 1 and 2), both are exactly 2794.52 GB.
Disk 2 is formatted and contains important data,
Disk 1 is unallocated.
Note that I cannot back up my data and format Disk 2 due to the ...
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Is it safe to use Windows 11 Mirror Storage Spaces with BitLocker Auto-Unlock
There have been reports from a few years back (albeit both about Windows 10, not 11) regarding some issues / incompatibilities that lead to data loss / corruption of using Windows Storage Spaces where ...
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How do I access a Windows 10 Storage Spaces from another Windows 10 install?
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So a while ago (maybe 3 weeks ago) I decided to divide my NVMe in half to duel boot Windows and Linux. In the process I somehow deleted my Windows boot partitions or something. I honestly ...
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Is there a way to install Windows onto Dynamic disks?
I like using the Dynamic disks with striping in Windows and was wondering if I could install from a Windows ISO onto a set of striped dynamic disks.
So far in my testing, that's not possible. I get ...
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Software RAID10 done via Windows 10 - would it remain after system re-installation?
Configuration: 4x1TB HDDs added into a storage space in Windows10 with 2-way mirroring, resulting in 2TB storage (so, I believe, "software-RAID10"):
screenshot of the setup
The question is - ...
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Create RAID 1 on Windows 10
Usually I work with RAID controllers however in this case this is not possible so I need to use the "Windows software raid" (or some other kind of software raid for that matter).
If I have ...
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What kind of raid I have?
I have the raid option on bios and I got Intel chipset SATA/PCIe RST premium and Microsoft Storage Spaces controllers under storage controllers on device manager but both my disks on basic mode. Is ...
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Windows 10 - RAID5 - Intel RAID or Storage Spaces?
Which method should I use to RAID5 my 3 drives?
At the moment I started out with Intel's RAID but it seems super slow. Steam can barely download with 10M/s speeds and the array sometimes have ...
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Dualboot Windows 10 and Linux on software RAID with common devices
I'm interested in improving the reliability and availability of the operating systems on my workstation as part of an upgrade being planned soon to my hardware. I tried to find a question like this on ...
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Do I need to wait for 100% resync?
I have set up a mirrored partition in Windows 10. Today I noticed a lot of disk activity in task manager for no apparent reason. Looking up the disk management, I see that it is resynchng.
In task ...
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RAID 5 Windows 10
Rev 1. - Provided Screenshot for Further Clarification.
When I convert my storage drive from a basic to a dynamic disk in Windows 10, using diskpart.exe, there is one partition but no volume to go ...
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M.2 Drives not appearing after reset of Windows 10 machine
I recently, mistakenly uninstalled a driver which forced me to completely reset my machine. I have a Dell Precision Tower 5810 running Windows 10. I have a standard internal hard drive as the C: drive....
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Can't add unallocated 2nd drive to C:\ in either striped or spanned volume
I was playing with getting rid of my BIOS RAID 0 and using AHCI. This would destroy the RAID 0 meaning I'd have to create a software RAID with Windows.
After converting to AHCI and doing a clean ...
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Share RAID between Linux and Windows 10
I have a PC with two SSD, one for Windows 10 and one for Linux.
I also have two more 1TB disks that I want to use as a software RAID 1 volume shared between Windows and Linux OS.
Which way could be ...
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RAID 1 disk goes 100% activity all the time with 0 read/write with 0ms response
I have setup software RAID 1 in windows 10 v1709. Main disk is SATA3 ssd but I have also two 3TB Seagate disks in software RAID 1 (mirrored). I have this setup for a few mounths and I had no problems ...
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