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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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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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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
The question is - ...
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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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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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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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