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Storage Space and Space Pooling in x32Win10ProV20H2
I used to edit material on an external HDD which I would back up monthly. When that drive failed, I realised that I should have been backing up the edits between month's ends. Then I saw that Storage Spaces in Settings;Storage, promised to 'save files to 2 or more drives' and that seemed to be what I needed. When I started the process of 'creating a new pool and storage space' I saw a warning that Windows would delete all files off the HDDs in the pool. I did not want to lose what was on the original ext HDD which I was editing, so the Storage Spaces mechanism no longer seemed suitable - unless I misunderstood the warning. Can someone clarify for me ?
The external HDD failure consisted of it no longer showing up in THIS PC and Disk Management in two different PCs.