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2 HDD = 1 C Drive question
Hi there,
I have an HP Envy 17 that came with 2 1TB HDDs. In windows they appear as a single 2TB C Drive.
How does this work? Is there a way to make them 2 separate drives without reformatting?
2 HDD = 1 C Drive question
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It appears the drives are used in a RAID 0 array. Data for each file is stripped across both drives. The drives cannot be separated without losing all data.
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New #4
That's a good guess, but I would reserve final judgement after we had a look at Disk Management.
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Ok so, my problem at the moment is that one drive is giving me warning messages so I was wanting to move all data to the healthy drive and replace the seconadary one... Then maybe looking into RAID1 instead of RAID0... is this not possible?
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You can only use the array as a whole. I suggest you backup your data to an external drive. Then you can replace the faulty drive and restart at square1.
I would, however, not raid the 2 drives again. If you want OS performance, add a small SSD for the OS. That is a LOT faster than a couple of raided HDDs. Then the user data can go on the HDDs.
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The purpose of RAID 0 is to improve performance, which it does. But the rather modest gains under real world conditions are usually not worth the problems it causes. A big one being if one drive fails, you loose everything. And there is more.
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I see. In that case - There is a recovery partition which I would need to use in order to restore windows. How do i know which physical disc this is located on, and if it is on the faulty drive what do I do then? Is there a process for backing up the recovery partition?
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New #10
Is your system still functioning? If yes, it might be easiest to take an image of the OS and reinstall that on a single disk.
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