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Intent is to set up home server on RAID-1, accessable via web in the future, hopefully with a domain.
Purchased refurb HP A6528 and two (2) brand new WD Black 750GB HDD.
Plugged HDD into SATA 0 and SATA1.
Enabled RAID in BIOS.
Restarted machine, pressed F4, then Ctrl+I and created RAID volume using max. (both 698GB volumes show as "members")
Installed clean Win7 Home Premium (64) obtained via college participation via MSDN.
Setup set aside 100MB 'reserved' space, and loaded OS in C:\ with a start size of 698GB.
Opened Disk Management. Only one volume (volume0) appears. Right clicked and made it "dynamic" and rebooted.
Opened Disk Management again, and fault tolerance indicates "No".
Tried to right click to "extend the Volume", but it has always been grayed out (I AM an administrator).
Repeated this process with same results.
What am I missing to establish RAID-1 fault tolerance?
I don't know what information you were consulting or steps you were following. Perhaps the following is worth the effort:
Navigate to the Disk Services component of Computer Mamagment, right click on the unpartitioned/unformatted space on the listing for one of the disks you want to use for the RAID and select More Actions.
If there is no unpartitioned space on the drive, you will not see the option. So, make sure there is nothing on the drive you want or need or that it is backed up, create space on the drive and try again.
Me, I would start with raw disks and create the RAID using the facilities in the BIOS. To do that, you need the driver software from the chip-set maker. It is already present in Win 7 for many chipsets. If oy is not, you have to provide the drivers to Windows
during the setup process or create a setup DVD that has them 'slipstreamed' into it.
Tom
I am being quoted on a laptop with 2 x 500 gb drives which i would like to mirror and am also wondering how I go about finding which versions of win 7 support (or do not) support my plan. I am currently using a 500 gb USB drive for backup but would like to mirror if possible as I really don't need 1 Tb for my data files and software.
If the info is available anywhere in msft.com a URL would be all I need.
Windows 7 support for disk mirroring exists in Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate editions.
If the laptop comes with two HDs, it is probable that the BIOS supports creating a mirror set. In that case, Windows 7 sees the array as one HD and it is "out of the equation" for the actual drive setup. In that case, all Windows 7 versions will operate correctly with it.
Tom Ferguson
I am being quoted on a laptop with 2 x 500 gb drives which i would like to mirror and am also wondering how I go about finding which versions of win 7 support (or do not) support my plan. I am currently using a 500 gb USB drive for backup but would like to mirror if possible as I really don't need 1 Tb for my data files and software.
If the info is available anywhere in msft.com a URL would be all I need.
All win versions can be configured in raid, but only if your motherboard / bios supports it. 2*500gb mirror raid will show as a single drive of 500gb.
But why do you want to use mirror raid, its not a replacement for a backup or clone of a single drive
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