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Windows 10 raid 1 using windows raid
Hello everyone. I'm new to the forum.
I've added a hard drive to my system to enable raid 1 via windows 10 Pro (not hardware raid).
my main drive has 4 partitions which were set up when I installed windows 8.1. I have since upgraded to 10 pro. I assume these partitions were there before the upgrade, but I could be wrong. The partitions are:
300 MD Healthy (recovery partition), 100 mb healthy Healthy (EFI system partition), (C:) 3725.07 GB NTFS Resynching: (boot, page file, crash dump) and finally, 450 mb Healthy (recovery partition).
I click on the C: partition and selected "Create mirror". It showed the new unformated drive. Clicked it, saw the message about turning the primary into a dynamic disk, said what the hell, and clicked go ahead.
(I used Macrium Reflect free edition to create a copy which is the current drive c I am using in this experiment - my original drive C is sitting on my desk, safe and sound).
The new drive (same manufacturer, model, size) is the mirror. On the new drive, I don't have those partitions, I've only got (C:) 3725.07 GB NTFS and 851 mg Unallocated (which equals the space of the other partitions from the primary drive that I am mirroring.
So, my question is, in a 2 disk mirror, if one disk dies, the system is supposed to continue functioning. I should be able to pull the dead drive,. Then reboot and see my desktop. But, what about the missing partitions that seem not to be mirrored?
I decided to use windows Raid vs hardware raid because I've read if I ever have to replace my motherboard with another that used a different controller, my raid will not function. Or something like that.
In the meantime, both drives say they are Resynching at 6% (in disk management).
Thoughts? Comments? Did I do something wrong? Etc, etc.
Thank you!
- Nelson