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Hey guys,
I stupidly used the onboard "fake" win7 raid 1 to setup a RAID1 mirror with my two new WD20EARS (2TB 64MB cache) drives as media/etc disks to my 64GB ssd.
I mounted one as a NTFS formatted disk, copied over some data (80GB worth).
Setup the 2nd disk as a mirror of the first disc.
Win7 was syncing the 2 disks, when the idiot that I am I continued using my computer as normal with a couple of shutdowns over the course of a few days.
I then noticed that the disks were complaining about a failed redundancy, but I could still access all the data fine.
I then proceeded to copy over 1.3TB of data onto the mirrored drives.
I now want to break the mirrored drives to fix this redundancy, but I am unsure of which drive the data correctly lives on as one of the disks is not in sync with the other.
How can I find out which drive the data is actually living on (as I can access the 1.3TB+ that lives on the "mirrored" drives) so I can remove the other drive from the mirror then readd and resync [1]?
Sorry for the long read, but I wanted to be thorough.
[1] After removing the 2nd disk, can I setup a hardware raid using my motherboard onboard RAID controller without losing the data? I am running a X58A-UD3R, I know this is not possible with RAID0 but it should be with RAID1, afaik you can setup a RAID1 at anytime.
Thanks!
I stupidly used the onboard "fake" win7 raid 1 to setup a RAID1 mirror with my two new WD20EARS (2TB 64MB cache) drives as media/etc disks to my 64GB ssd.
I mounted one as a NTFS formatted disk, copied over some data (80GB worth).
Setup the 2nd disk as a mirror of the first disc.
Win7 was syncing the 2 disks, when the idiot that I am I continued using my computer as normal with a couple of shutdowns over the course of a few days.
I then noticed that the disks were complaining about a failed redundancy, but I could still access all the data fine.
I then proceeded to copy over 1.3TB of data onto the mirrored drives.
I now want to break the mirrored drives to fix this redundancy, but I am unsure of which drive the data correctly lives on as one of the disks is not in sync with the other.
How can I find out which drive the data is actually living on (as I can access the 1.3TB+ that lives on the "mirrored" drives) so I can remove the other drive from the mirror then readd and resync [1]?
Sorry for the long read, but I wanted to be thorough.
[1] After removing the 2nd disk, can I setup a hardware raid using my motherboard onboard RAID controller without losing the data? I am running a X58A-UD3R, I know this is not possible with RAID0 but it should be with RAID1, afaik you can setup a RAID1 at anytime.
Thanks!