[SOLVED] Rearanging HDD setup (removing raid1 and making image to a third drive).

[patoupayou]

Hi, I've got a problem deleting a raid 1 on my lenovo thinkstation. Here's what I want to do and did so far:

1- I've got 2x 1 tb harddrive in raid1 so deleting one of them and boot to the remaining one. So far went trough the crtl-i part deleted (turned the raid on the 2nd drive to none-raid). when I did that and rebooted all went just fine but I'm not seeing the second drive. went back (ctrl-i and the second drive was shown as non-raid so it did work but I'm surely missing one important step here.

2- When I'll get my two seperate disk up and running I'd like to partitioned the disk with windows 10 and everything on it so I can make an image and Eventually transfer said image to a third (ssd most likely looking for a low priced yet pretty efficient drive) any suggestion would be appreciated I was looking at either a crucial 250gb or a kingston 240 gb at around 60$.

 

[popatim]

1 - Check Disk Management (run diskmgmt.msc) and your missing drive probably just needs to be initialized and a new volume created.
2 - You can partition the drive as you like when creating the volume(s) in step 1

Are you placing an image of the boot drive on this drive; an image being a compressed copy of the source drive; or a clone which is a functioning copy of the source drive? If you are actually cloning you can skip creating a volume in step one, the clone will do that, and you can add further partitions as needed.