Question 2 Hard drives, 1 being detected or able to be used.

[firefarter34]

When I took my system out of raid on my old computer, I took two hard drives from it out of the four and put them in my new computer. As you can see, only 1 is being utilized and I can't figure out why for the life of me.

I'm not a storage expert by any means but I know a little bit.

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RAID 1 (Help)

I just litterally finished building my new computer and when I plugged 2 of my 4 harddrives in, they wouldn't let me boot off of them. I was sure I picked the ones that were able to be seen normally and not the ones on raid. So I messed around with them a little bit and nothing worked, with 1...

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Sorry this took so long, I got busy with work and overtime. Some family stuff bUt I have time now. Hopefully you're still alive there.

Disk 0, there's activity lots of it and the only one I can see

Disk 1 No activity, barren like my mind at work

 

[Barty1884]

Looks like your boot manager etc ended up on the secondary drive. The partitions marked in yellow essentially form one drive, for the purposes of booting/operating.

The red aspect is an unallocated partition. you'd need to create an active partition and assign a drive letter (right click on the unallocated space) before it will become usable.

 

[firefarter34]

What will happen when I start making the partition after clicking finish? Will it restart my computeR? will it take an hour? will my computer explode? I've never done this before so I'd like to know what happens

 

[Barty1884]

You'll have another partition/drive to work with.

Should be fairly instant.... Nothing will explode. Just make sure you're only dealing with the unallocated partition.

Realistically, it's not a great idea that your OS install is split across multiple drives. It can happen, but it can also be a little problematic.

 

[firefarter34]

I didn't even know I had my OS on multiple drives, this is my first build from scratch so I was bound to make some mistakes.

 

[firefarter34]

It worked, it crashed R6 Siege but it worked, thank you so much my dude.

 

[Barty1884]

It's not that it's "on" multiple drives, but the boot manager etc has ended up on a secondary drive.
Essentially makes them dependent. I would expect that if you removed the second drive, your OS/primary drive would not successfully boot.

EDIT just saw you linked a prior thread about RAID.... Not what I would expect to see if these were previously in RAID, but I'd need to read through your other thread.

 

[firefarter34]

Ah, that explains why when I tried to change out the drives to see if this drive failed, why i couldn't write to it, it failed to boot.

That makes so much sense. How do I get them all on one drive? I'll need to know when I get an SSD

 

[mdd1963]

Once you get the SSD, it'd be best to start over from scratch, clean (like new) install, in my opinion....

 

[Barty1884]

Ah, that explains why when I tried to change out the drives to see if this drive failed, why i couldn't write to it, it failed to boot.

That makes so much sense. How do I get them all on one drive? I'll need to know when I get an SSD

Clear installing to the SSD, after creating your own bootable install media would be the way to go - to avoid a reoccurrence of the partitions being created on multiple drives, disconnect the HDDs before install.

Once Windows is installed successfully, reconnect the HDDs.

https://forums.tomshardware.com/faq/how-to-do-a-clean-installation-of-windows-10.3170366/