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Windows mirroring
Hello,
I have a work laptop, HP ZBook 17 G2, with a 256GB SSD and a 1TB HDD. This laptop I use with the HP 230W Advanced Docking station that has an integrated SATA upgrade bay. I have an identical 1TB drive plugged into that.
Windows is installed to the SSD on C:\. I have my profile folder and several program installations located on the 1TB drive on partition D:\. I then have another partition, E:\, on the same drive for work data storage. (EDIT: Should probably mention that this 1TB drive is the one installed in the laptop.)
What I want to do, for hard drive failure purposes (I have separate backups I do as well), is mirror D:\ and E:\ to the other 1TB drive using Windows.
I know how to do this and have successfully done so. However, when I shut down the laptop, pull it off the docking station, then start it back up, it shows the mirror status as failed and will not allow me to access either D:\ or E:\ until after I break the mirror. This means it creates a temp profile to log me in with, etc.
So my question is pretty much this: does anyone know if this is normal behavior for Windows mirroring or if there's something I need to do to correct this? Logically, to me anyway, this doesn't seem like the way it should work.
Last edited by FuryoftheStars; 06 Apr 2017 at 11:31.