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Setting up hard drive with windows 7 64 Bit
Setting up hard drive with windows 7 64 Bit.
Hello all,
I have windows 7 pro 64 Bit, an ASUS G10AC desktop PC.
I have two Seagate 3 TB drives, and a 128 GB Kingston SSD drive.
The SSD drive is too small, windows 7 (despite me putting nothing but the OS on this drive) is a pig and ate all the free space. It is the OS, not me, I tried everyhting to no success.
Anyways, I was wondering. I migrated a full clone of my SSD drive onto one 3 TB hard drive, only issue is its an MBR drive, not a GPT drive.
I was wondering if I can do the following:
place MBR on Kingston SSD, have it point to a 3tb hard drive which is GPT.
Then in device manager, convert the 3TB drive to a dynamic disk and then mirror it with the second drive.
3 drives, the 2 3tb disks are mirrored in windows as dynamic disks. and the kingston has the MBR which points to the 3tb windows 7 install.
Then I was planning on just using the rest of the SSD as paging file drive.
as for my files, I have two 6tb samsung drives mirrored in windows to store all my data.
Trying to get capacity and redundancy, but the existing install is not allowing it.
Windows 7 pro came with the desktop, I have recovery disks, i do not have a windows install disk.
my Kingston 128gb SSD drive is currently untouched, it only has 10 mb free space, it was a pain getting this far because of that.
I am open to suggestions.
This whole issue arrises because windows wont allow me to mirror the OS drive, and if I convert it to GPT, it wont boot and its a pain recopying the kingston drive.
unless someone knows if my desktop supports raid, then I would gladly put the drives as raid mirror and raid mirror and forget about the unused 700GB on the two 3tb drives.
suggestions?