RAID 1 On Windows C Drive

[Ndonnellon89]

Hello Forum,
I am doing a quick windows build here on a couple of computers and want to RAID 1 the windows C drive. The motherboard i got for them does not support RAID (I kinda figured it would). So now i was thinking of just doing a software RAID in windows. I got the C drive to mirror each other in disk management but the issue seems to be booting. When the computer starts it asks which hard drive i want to boot from and when i simulate hard drive failure the boot manager doesn't come up at all and i am stuck with the no boot device error. My guessing is that there is something on the 100MB system partition that isn't copying over. If anyone has experience doing such things and can help me i would appreciate it. I can go out and get a RAID controller, but would rather not. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[jitpublisher]

Software RAID in windows is not "RAID" in a true form, it's actually just a fancy way of drive spanning and displaying your drives to you in a raid-like format. But the underlying fundamentals of a true RAID array are not present.
The question is, why are wanting to to run RAID? Your method may not be the cure your are looking for.

 

[goodguy713]

just get two raid ready drives and call it a day other wise your just wasting your time

 

[Ndonnellon89]

I am just looking to add a little data protection on the cheap.

 

[Ndonnellon89]

Also the computers won't be close for me to go out and immediately replace. They are business computers and I don't want down time.

 

[jitpublisher]

Also the computers won't be close for me to go out and immediately replace. They are business computers and I don't want down time.

Then you need to buy a RAID card and setup true hardware RAID.