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I ran SpinRite on that drive on SATA Port 1 I have this trouble with, and it told me what the problem is. Here is the message it gives me: Invalid Partition for Drive Size. This partition exceeds the size of this drive as defined by the system's BIOS, or BIOS extension. You should NOT PROCEED...

Just as in the Disk Manager, the drive in SATA Port 1 is not visible in "Manage Storage Spaces". Only the one at SATA Port 0 is. When I attempt to add the one in SATA Port 1 I get the error message "No drives that work with Storage Spaces are available." Before a drive is visible here, it would...

There are two HGST HDN726040ALE614 HDDs installed . These are in Sata Port 0, and 1. Their storage capacity is 4000784417280 . Both these drives are visible in the BIOS, and also the Device Manager, but the one in SATA Port 1 is not visible in Disk Management, nor is it visible in the Windows...

I have had a disk drive fail on me. I also had that GA-970A-D3P mother board fail on me when I was using it with a pair of RAIDed hard disk drives. What I did then was replace that board with a new one of the same make, and model, and used it with those to disk drives. This worked for the most...

In step 3 on on the web page: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/how-to-set-up-raid-windows-10,36783.html there is: 3. Type or paste ‘Storage Spaces’ into Search Windows. That there is "Search Windows" has to mean there is already an OS installed, and a newly added drive will become part of...

"With windows raid - OS can not be installed on RAID volume." Does this mean the OS is not copied to the newly added mirrored drive?

So the computer will keep running if one drive fails, and make it necessary to send the failed drive to a data recovery specialist. If RAID 0 all data is lost if one drive fails.

I am about to do a clean install Windows 10 Pro in an old computer. The computer has a Gigabyte GA-970A-D3P motherboard, and two hard disk drives. There is no SSD. I desire the installation to have the two disk drives in RAID 1 Mirror configuration. I see there are two options: 1) Follow the...