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Host system dead. How do I read data stored on a RAID 1 drive/pair?
I have looked for similar questions and I probably don't know the proper phrases to find an equivalent question if it exists here on SU. I have seen a couple questions from 6-plus years back that ...
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How to recreate hardware mirror RAID with bigger drives?
I had a RAID 1 mirrored array composed of 2 x 500GB HDDs connected to my Gigabyte Z590 motherboard.
I was running out of space, so I cloned one of the drives with Clonezilla to a 1TB drive.
On that ...
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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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Transfering mirrored disks to different computer
I had two 3TB HDDs on my old computer. These were setup to be mirrored using Window's Disk Management util.
I am now trying to use those two HDDs on my new computer. I plugged them in using the ...
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Can't change SATA mode from RAID to AHCI in Windows 10
I am trying to install Ubuntu in dual boot with Windows 10, but after many failed attempts I realized that I have to change SATA mode to AHCI.
I have tried literally everything I have read online, ...
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PCIE SSD Raid0 not bootable but everything is OK on it
I have a MSI GT72S 6QE laptop where the OS (Windows 10) is installed on a PCIE RAID0 SSD (I know, Raid0 sucks, I won't make that mistake again when buying a laptop).
On of the two SSD's in the RAID ...
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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
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Is it possible to extend C drive using unallocated space in another physical drive?
I have 2 physical hard drives. One of them contains only my C drive and one of them contains other drives. All drives are primary and no extended partition exists. Is it possible to delete one of the ...
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Windows freezes when accessing optical drive when SATA mode is set to RAID
I have a Asus X570-E motherboard with a couple drives connected in raid on the SATA bus. I've set the SATA mode from AHCI to RAID, and configured the raid successfully.
However, today when I ...
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RAID 1 Drives Failed status after Windows 10 rebuild (Intel to AMD)
About a year ago, I setup a RAID 1 - two drives mirroring each other on my PC running Intel CPU and Windows 10. I configured it in Disk Management.
A few days ago, I rebuilt it with an AMD Ryzen 5 ...
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Is this RAID-1 disk causing system hangs?
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I've got a Windows 10 desktop with a few different disks/filesytems installed:
1TB SSD, primary/Windows is installed here
500GB SSD, secondary, used for VM's
120GB SSD, secondary, used ...
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Can I use three SSDs in RAID 5 with an operating system install on one of them?
I have three identical 500GB M.2 SSD's installed on my motherboard, and want to run them all in a RAID 5 array, where I would have ~1TB usable storage. I currently have Windows 10 installed and ...
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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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Recover unallocated partition (Windows Storage Space/Pool)
I have 4 3TB drives in raid-5 via Storage Spaces in Windows 10. In mid-copy of file the system froze/rebooted and the drive is now listed as "Unallocated". I had concerns using the Storage Spaces ...
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After Updating Intel Rapid Storage Technology Software, Windows 10 won't boot
After updating my Intel Rapid Storage Technology (IRST) software, My windows 10 desktop computer won't boot.
I'm using IRST to manage my RAID 1.
I can't access Safe Mode to undo the IRST software ...
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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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