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| 1429208 | 2016-11-25 20:07:00 | HI. I've been given the Dell which has 2 drives in it in raid config. Each drive is only 160GB.So there's only 149 odd GB between them! I've downloaded the manual for it but this raid stuff is a bit confusing. Is it possible to go back to the os on one drive and use the other for data,but increasing the size of the drives? Although the 160GB would be big enough for C drive. Will the OS be on one drive now? And therefore in theory able to be cloned to a larger drive? Or spread across the 2? It's got Win7 ultimate on it now which I'd like to keep,seeing the free Win10 has gone! Or is it possible to clone each drive to a larger one and have it still work? Thanks. |
Neil McC (178) | ||
| 1429209 | 2016-11-25 21:54:00 | You can separate the drives but it's probably a BIOS setting and you will lose all the data on them so you'll ever need to image the C: drive, break the RAID array, restore the image back to a single drive. Alternatively you could reinstall windows fresh and start over. For now at least you can still choose windows 10 from a fresh install using the windows 7 key if that's something you want. Has the optical drive been removed to make space for a the extra drive?, at least one standard configuration has just a single hard drive. |
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| 1429210 | 2016-12-05 18:57:00 | Thanks dugmido. I've tried 3 times to install Win10 through the Microsoft site that says you can for visually impaired (or something similar) 3 times it stuck at 99%. The last time I left it for over a day and the notification screen just went blank! Anyhow yesterday I downed Win10 using the media creation tool,burnt it to a dvd and it just installed without any questions and activated. So now I'm going to make sure it'll boot from a cd before I go into ctrl-I which allows me to "reset disks to Non-Raid" and then reload Win10...hopefully! The machine has 2 x10,000rpm drives in it side by side, which hinge outwards on the side.So it's easy to change a drive.I'll keep one as C drive and put a larger one in for Data if it survives! |
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