This is good video with better way of mirror drives, i have question what if you have SAS HDD Raid1 and windows on it crash because Raid configuration lost, how do recover your data on Raid drives?
firstly, I want to thank you for a great st8 forward video, I came here in search to setup backup for my DELL 7920. it has one4tb N TWO 16TB hard-drive. one of the 16tb has data that was backup from hp Z820. Now I want e to use the same drive for future raid1 backup, however; I don't want to format or loose any data that was backup in the process setting up RAID1 in the process. kindly please Advise if it's possinle. know the Con and PRo of RAID1. thanks.
Establishing any kind of RAID on the drive will delete its content unless it is this drive that is mirrored to another one. Look in my channel on a video on how to establish RAID1
Excellent video. Are we able to tell when a mirrored HDD is about to fail so that we replace it before it actually fails? Or maybe that's not needed because we can simply replace it when it completely dies.
He is not correct. You can mirror the OS drive but on bootup windows will detect two OS boots with a timeout. In 30 seconds it will auto boot from the first one. Its a pain and is why you would not want to mirror the boot drive on windows. On Hardware raid you can boot from mirror no issue no dual boot menu issue.
If the computer dies completely, and you plug 1 of the drives into a laptop via a USB adapter how can I access the data without recreating the mirror? I don't have another adapter to plug both drives in
Thanks for your input and time to make these videos! I have a little question: i have a steady 12 tb hdd in a Windows 10 desktop. I would like to add a mirror to this disk. Can I just buy the same hdd, add it to the configuration and then add this as a mirror to the existing one without losing my data? Thanks!!!
Thanks for watching! If your drive has the OS on it, then you cannot add it as a mirror drive. If not, then yes you can. Here's a video explaining how: ua-cam.com/video/XdZOEZsLadM/v-deo.html
I have a d-link ShareCenter DNS320 that is a NAS drive with RAID 0 setup but for some reason windows can not connect to it anymore. When I use the d-link utility, it sees the drive's IP address and shows static IP, but when I try to open it with windows 10 by inputing \\192.168.68.115 (this worked before and this is the IP that shows with the d-link utitly), Windows does not see it anymore and says windows can not access \\192.168.68.115. Do you have any ideas how to recover the data on my drive? I will not be using in anymore, I just want to recover my family picutres. Thank you
This is all fine, but how do you know if 1 of the drives has failed in a normal scenario? Does windows warn you about such event? How does it warn you? I hope that you don't need to check your Disk Management every day to be safe...
when I add mirror to C drive , it says, not possible to mirroe with different parttition type ? please suggest ( the C drive with some backup partitions, like yours )
I have a serious issue with two 4TB SATA SSDs in RAID 1 on Windows 10 (not the boot/system drive). One drive is failing, and when it does the array fails of course) BUT I cannot access the other drive or the logical drive D: that was assigned to the RAID volumes. When I attempt to use Disk Manager as shown in your video, it does not show two drives, just one drive D: appearing as normal drive, not mirrored. Nowhere does "mirrored" appear. When I consider deleting the array with the IRSTe interface via Windows or in BIOS, I am warned that I'll lose all the data. Despite all the internet statements to the contrary, i.e, that I will not lose the data when deleting an array or removing a disk from an array, the Intel apps say that I will. I'd be thrilled to do away with the RAID configuration and be left with two indpendent drives, one good, one likely bad, but I cannot afford the data loss. Any ideas would be immensely appreciated!
Maybe your RAID is a HW RAID done on the BIOS level. The only solution I can think of is to get a temporary 4TB drive, transfer all the data to it, beak the Mirror and re-do it with good drives and then retransfer the data from the temp drive to the mirror.
@@KnowledgeSharingTech Thank you for your reply. You might be right about HW RAID. I will soon be moving this data to a new workstation with new NVME drives, so I don't' want or care about RAID on my soon-to-be gone computer, but I want it functional until I've moved everything. I just want to access the data on one of the two mirrored drives for a while longer. So what finally worked for me was to remove both drives from their current disk bays, and put one of them into a previously unused bay. When I booted, that drive was seen as a normal drive D: with no reference anywhere to RAID. So it would seem that the physical location of the drive is what identifies it as a mirrored drive. And now I have a working PC again, but I still don't understand why the RAID1 was flagged as disabled and not just degraded. It will remain a mystery.
i have one question, i checked doing both drive mirrored with partition i.e C and D both, in that case if primary drive fails can secondary drive will work after restarting the machine and again if i will put first drive "IN" do i need to mirror again. Or anything else i need to do. Kindly suggest.
Sir I have a question for instance that your drive C already have existing files and wish to add new hardrive as drive D. If you mirror drive C to D drives, does file C existing files lost? or rather automatically mirrors it as one drive.
When i go to Disk Manager, i do not see the drives on the bottom pane. Any ideas? I have a Dell Precision PC with RAID1 setup 2HDDs. I am trying to replace one failed HDD, but need some instructions as this was the original setup and Dell does not support the PC any longer.
If the RAID 1 came pre-configured on your PC, then maybe it is a HW RAID, meaning it was setup in the BIOS, in this case, you will see only one drive in DiskMan
@@KnowledgeSharingTech we are able to see RAID setup in the device configuration settings of the f12 boot menu. Can I just remove the failed drive and replace with a new on and restart the PC, or do i need to configure it first in the Device configuration?
We removed the bad one, put in the new one. Using f12 device config we were able to select rebuild option. now the status is rebuilding, but the computer does not boot up. Do we have to wait until the status is not rebuilding? no info to help with a simple drive replacement anywhere. It is all create from scratch or virtual machines.
Hello sir, May I know that is the Windows OS stored in raid 1 HDD? or stored in a separated disk? Does the raid HDD only store the application? Many thanks for your attention!
I want to know if the Windows OS is crashed, may I use another raid 1 (mirror) hard disk to restore the windows os in bios? Because raid 1 uses 2 HDDs, if the Windows OS is crashed, I use the standby disk to recover the windows?
What I show in this video is Software Raid 1. This cannot be implemented on the OS volume. If you want to protect your OS drive, you should use Hardware Raid, it is configurable in the PC's BIOS but not all PCs have it.
Can anyone help me, I have a old Sony Vaio VGN-AR290G and I'm stuck on the Vaio logo after that i just get a black screen with a blinking underscore in the top left. almost looks like command prompt but its not. I try F8 and cant get to the BOOT menu. I only can get to the BIOS screen with F2. Please can anyone help me?
Q1. Can disk on which Windows is installed be mirrored? Q2. How is mirroring a disk in 'Windows Disk Management' different from using 'Storage Spaces'? Q3. Will mirroring work on a network drive? Q4. Is there a way to maintain redundancy on a home PC so that PC can still boot even if there is a hard drive failure? Q5. How to maintain redundancy for software issues such as OS corruption?
One drive in a Raid 1 pair reports errors. Reactive disk fails to resync - after an age it drops back to reporting errors (after getting to 74% of a 3T disk). The 'Break Mirror' option is greyed out. Does this mean that I can only use the 'Remove' option? Once separated I assume that I can do a chkdsk /r to attempt a repair on the bad device?
Thank you! Your video cleared all my anxiety about creating Raid 1 on my Windows 10.
Glad it helped
clear and to the point, exactly what I've been looking for
Simple and clear. Exactly what I needed
That answered every question I had about Windows raid.
Thank you for this tutorial!
Very clear and on point, thank you !!
You're very welcome
Simple and clear. Thank you.
This is good video with better way of mirror drives, i have question what if you have SAS HDD Raid1 and windows on it crash because Raid configuration lost, how do recover your data on Raid drives?
Good explain❤
Thank you, Simple and useful
Very nice Video and very helpfull, Thank you so much Sir, Love from India 🙏🙏🙏🙏
So nice of you
You are the man! Thank you so much!!!
thanks for sharing and explaining
My pleasure
Very useful. Thanks!
Simple , nice thank you
But if one disk is partially unavailable. For example, the nvme disk is messed up. This will pretty sure corrupt the data on the whole disk.
Thanks !!!
wow thank u for that info
My pleasure
firstly, I want to thank you for a great st8 forward video, I came here in search to setup backup for my DELL 7920. it has one4tb N TWO 16TB hard-drive. one of the 16tb has data that was backup from hp Z820. Now I want e to use the same drive for future raid1 backup, however; I don't want to format or loose any data that was backup in the process setting up RAID1 in the process. kindly please Advise if it's possinle. know the Con and PRo of RAID1. thanks.
Establishing any kind of RAID on the drive will delete its content unless it is this drive that is mirrored to another one. Look in my channel on a video on how to establish RAID1
Excellent video. Are we able to tell when a mirrored HDD is about to fail so that we replace it before it actually fails? Or maybe that's not needed because we can simply replace it when it completely dies.
Yes, you can set an event task under Event Viewer
I use Crystal disk Info, I recommend
very easy and informative.
I have one question i have setup raid 1 in server which is now not accessiable as not able to boot how to recover it now
You can remove the drive and put it in another server. It will recognize it as foreign, then you need to import it in Diskman
Thank you, i wil use it
Great video. Do you have a video on how to restore a raid 5 disk array base on, lets say 3 drives?
Not yet
Awesome video.
A question just for more understanding - Does the Windows OS gets copied too to the mirrored drive in Raid 1???
I assume - Yes
No, OS drives cannot be part of a software RAID
@@KnowledgeSharingTech Thank you!
He is not correct. You can mirror the OS drive but on bootup windows will detect two OS boots with a timeout. In 30 seconds it will auto boot from the first one. Its a pain and is why you would not want to mirror the boot drive on windows. On Hardware raid you can boot from mirror no issue no dual boot menu issue.
E se tiver um só HD (para sistema e dados), é possível espelhar? Se sim, como faria para adicionar o espelho? seria o mesmo procedimento?
If the computer dies completely, and you plug 1 of the drives into a laptop via a USB adapter how can I access the data without recreating the mirror? I don't have another adapter to plug both drives in
can we use this RAID 1 method on a Portable USB Drive and use it on multiple computers?
Thanks for your input and time to make these videos! I have a little question: i have a steady 12 tb hdd in a Windows 10 desktop. I would like to add a mirror to this disk. Can I just buy the same hdd, add it to the configuration and then add this as a mirror to the existing one without losing my data? Thanks!!!
Thanks for watching! If your drive has the OS on it, then you cannot add it as a mirror drive. If not, then yes you can. Here's a video explaining how: ua-cam.com/video/XdZOEZsLadM/v-deo.html
@@KnowledgeSharingTech aw great. You already made a video. Well done and I will follow you in return and like your videos.
Thank you and I am glad you enjoy my videos
Hello, and a raid 1 through the bios recovers the same???
I have a d-link ShareCenter DNS320 that is a NAS drive with RAID 0 setup but for some reason windows can not connect to it anymore.
When I use the d-link utility, it sees the drive's IP address and shows static IP, but when I try to open it with windows 10 by inputing \\192.168.68.115 (this worked before and this is the IP that shows with the d-link utitly), Windows does not see it anymore and says windows can not access \\192.168.68.115.
Do you have any ideas how to recover the data on my drive? I will not be using in anymore, I just want to recover my family picutres. Thank you
This is all fine, but how do you know if 1 of the drives has failed in a normal scenario? Does windows warn you about such event? How does it warn you? I hope that you don't need to check your Disk Management every day to be safe...
I think it simply wouldn't show in the File Explorer
@@rustez14 so both of the hdd won't show ?
@@lordcatpotato At 1:24 you can see that it doesn't show them
when I add mirror to C drive , it says, not possible to mirroe with different parttition type ? please suggest ( the C drive with some backup partitions, like yours )
Send me a screenshot of the drives in Diskman. My email is in the about section of my channel
My RAID 1 consists of two M.2 drives on the motherboard. A can't find a video for that
Depending on your CPU type: AMD or Intel, search for Hardware RAID to see how to manage it
I have a serious issue with two 4TB SATA SSDs in RAID 1 on Windows 10 (not the boot/system drive). One drive is failing, and when it does the array fails of course) BUT I cannot access the other drive or the logical drive D: that was assigned to the RAID volumes. When I attempt to use Disk Manager as shown in your video, it does not show two drives, just one drive D: appearing as normal drive, not mirrored. Nowhere does "mirrored" appear. When I consider deleting the array with the IRSTe interface via Windows or in BIOS, I am warned that I'll lose all the data. Despite all the internet statements to the contrary, i.e, that I will not lose the data when deleting an array or removing a disk from an array, the Intel apps say that I will. I'd be thrilled to do away with the RAID configuration and be left with two indpendent drives, one good, one likely bad, but I cannot afford the data loss. Any ideas would be immensely appreciated!
Maybe your RAID is a HW RAID done on the BIOS level. The only solution I can think of is to get a temporary 4TB drive, transfer all the data to it, beak the Mirror and re-do it with good drives and then retransfer the data from the temp drive to the mirror.
@@KnowledgeSharingTech Thank you for your reply. You might be right about HW RAID. I will soon be moving this data to a new workstation with new NVME drives, so I don't' want or care about RAID on my soon-to-be gone computer, but I want it functional until I've moved everything. I just want to access the data on one of the two mirrored drives for a while longer. So what finally worked for me was to remove both drives from their current disk bays, and put one of them into a previously unused bay. When I booted, that drive was seen as a normal drive D: with no reference anywhere to RAID. So it would seem that the physical location of the drive is what identifies it as a mirrored drive. And now I have a working PC again, but I still don't understand why the RAID1 was flagged as disabled and not just degraded. It will remain a mystery.
i have one question, i checked doing both drive mirrored with partition i.e C and D both, in that case if primary drive fails can secondary drive will work after restarting the machine and again if i will put first drive "IN" do i need to mirror again. Or anything else i need to do. Kindly suggest.
Watch this video on RAID 1, it will help you: ua-cam.com/video/XdZOEZsLadM/v-deo.html
Avisa el raid cuando falla una unidad?
Sir I have a question for instance that your drive C already have existing files and wish to add new hardrive as drive D. If you mirror drive C to D drives, does file C existing files lost? or rather automatically mirrors it as one drive.
If the OS is on your C drive, you cannot mirror it. Take a look at this video, it explains it all: ua-cam.com/video/XdZOEZsLadM/v-deo.html
@@KnowledgeSharingTech thank you
When i go to Disk Manager, i do not see the drives on the bottom pane. Any ideas? I have a Dell Precision PC with RAID1 setup 2HDDs. I am trying to replace one failed HDD, but need some instructions as this was the original setup and Dell does not support the PC any longer.
If the RAID 1 came pre-configured on your PC, then maybe it is a HW RAID, meaning it was setup in the BIOS, in this case, you will see only one drive in DiskMan
@@KnowledgeSharingTech we are able to see RAID setup in the device configuration settings of the f12 boot menu. Can I just remove the failed drive and replace with a new on and restart the PC, or do i need to configure it first in the Device configuration?
We removed the bad one, put in the new one. Using f12 device config we were able to select rebuild option. now the status is rebuilding, but the computer does not boot up. Do we have to wait until the status is not rebuilding? no info to help with a simple drive replacement anywhere. It is all create from scratch or virtual machines.
Hello sir, May I know that is the Windows OS stored in raid 1 HDD? or stored in a separated disk? Does the raid HDD only store the application? Many thanks for your attention!
I want to know if the Windows OS is crashed, may I use another raid 1 (mirror) hard disk to restore the windows os in bios? Because raid 1 uses 2 HDDs, if the Windows OS is crashed, I use the standby disk to recover the windows?
What I show in this video is Software Raid 1. This cannot be implemented on the OS volume.
If you want to protect your OS drive, you should use Hardware Raid, it is configurable in the PC's BIOS but not all PCs have it.
@@KnowledgeSharingTech OK! totally understand, thank you!
Can anyone help me, I have a old Sony Vaio VGN-AR290G and I'm stuck on the Vaio logo after that i just get a black screen with a blinking underscore in the top left. almost looks like command prompt but its not. I try F8 and cant get to the BOOT menu. I only can get to the BIOS screen with F2. Please can anyone help me?
where u from ? lebanon? yes it was useful lol
Spanish translation is awful. I choose to listen to it in english.
Q1. Can disk on which Windows is installed be mirrored?
Q2. How is mirroring a disk in 'Windows Disk Management' different from using 'Storage Spaces'?
Q3. Will mirroring work on a network drive?
Q4. Is there a way to maintain redundancy on a home PC so that PC can still boot even if there is a hard drive failure?
Q5. How to maintain redundancy for software issues such as OS corruption?
One drive in a Raid 1 pair reports errors. Reactive disk fails to resync - after an age it drops back to reporting errors (after getting to 74% of a 3T disk). The 'Break Mirror' option is greyed out. Does this mean that I can only use the 'Remove' option? Once separated I assume that I can do a chkdsk /r to attempt a repair on the bad device?
It's better to replace the bad disk
@@KnowledgeSharingTech Yes, I'm going to use the internals as an activator to ring a series of hand bells.