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Drive missing from Optimize Drives since upgrade to Windows 10 1803
Since upgrading Windows 10 (Pro) to version 1803, one of my drives is missing from the Optimize Drives list. The drive in question is, my D:-drive, a software-defined RAID-0 (striped) over two disks.
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Intel Raid and Windows 10
I have an ASUS P8P67 REV 3.1 board with an Intel i5-2500K processor.
I have two disks for my data which are joined in a Raid 1 configuration, which is builtin by the chipset.
I would now like to ...
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Mirroring the C: drive to a spare drive to protect against disk failure [duplicate]
Following on from this question: Installing Windows 10 (same product key) on a separate drive in case primary drive fails (multi-boot), I have a 237GB SSD C: drive (almost full, nearly 4 years old) ...
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Windows 10 home server RAID errors
First of all apologies in advance, I am still learning about the different ways to setup a home server. Any help is greatly appreciated!
I recently converted an old PC I had into a home media server....
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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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Windows 10 Storage Spaces 2-Way Mirror Low Capacity Warning at 70%
I am not sure if this warning is a reason for concern or a reason to add more drives as suggested:
I have this setup as a 2-way mirror, so that both drives should hold identical data. Both of them ...
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Easiest/best way to backup/restore RAID 5 array?
I've tried the built in Windows 10 backup and restore with no success. I've also tried EaseUS Todo Backup and Aomei Backupper with no success.
I'm guessing this is because the backup is written fine, ...
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Raid 0 Performance Decreased
I was trying to understand the performance benefits of RAID. I created 4 virtual disks in Windows 10 (10 GB each). I then set up 2 of them as Stripped volumes and the other 2 as spanned volumes. Now I ...
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Windows 10 Storage Space Creation Error
I've been having issues lately with an existing storage space. I had a drive fail and the storage space was too thinly provisioned to recover. I removed the drive from the space and recovered some ...
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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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Boot from old hard drive
The motherboard of my old computer died suddenly and so I bought a new computer. It has two 1TB HDDs on RAID 0 and comes preinstalled with Windows 10 Home. I wanted my computer to boot from my old ...
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RAID0 removed and recreated. Can I get my already installed windows back?
I got my MSI GT72S today. It has 256GB SSD from Toshiba with 1TB standard harddrive. The 256GB SSD is physically 2 hard drives each of size 128GB. Both the drives were joined through RAID0. The OS (...
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Can I turn off my system drive for a few seconds? And how?
I want to find out what the most noisy component of my computer is, and though it could be the hard drives (since lowering the PWM of the fans and pump only helps a little).
So I thought I could just ...
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Change one disc to AHCI
I have one SSD that I'd like to use in AHCI mode, and two discs in RAID mode. Right now all discs are in RAID - the SSD, and two HDDs. I would like to change only one of them to AHCI?
I found in the ...
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Dynamic Disk (software RAID) not accessible after windows 10 upgrade
I have two 2TB drives set up as a single volume in Windows. In Disk Management these physical drives are listed as Dynamic. I set them up in Windows 7, and they continued to function fine when ...
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