I ordered a workstation with the main C drive as a raid 1. When I view the hard drives under disk management one is online and the other is offline both with the same partitions and space etc. It appears they are indeed a raid array and are duplicates of each other.
First thing is I've never seen this type before and they state they are both basic drives, not dynamic.
Second concern is I need more space and need to basically clone this raid array to a larger one. But when I create a mirrored array in windows, it makes the discs dynamic which will not allow me to clone to them. I've tried several software solutions and manual cloning and nothing has worked. When I make the raid in Windows, I see both drives (although I only see one in 'my computer') and they are both online.
Why is one set basic and half online/offline, when the one I make is dynamic and both online?
I need any assistance please.
W7 Pro 64bit
First thing is I've never seen this type before and they state they are both basic drives, not dynamic.
Second concern is I need more space and need to basically clone this raid array to a larger one. But when I create a mirrored array in windows, it makes the discs dynamic which will not allow me to clone to them. I've tried several software solutions and manual cloning and nothing has worked. When I make the raid in Windows, I see both drives (although I only see one in 'my computer') and they are both online.
Why is one set basic and half online/offline, when the one I make is dynamic and both online?
I need any assistance please.
W7 Pro 64bit