RAID Options Greyed Out!?

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I did some checking. First thing to know is that the Raid 5 option is only for Windows Server. If that's what you are trying to do, you'll need a third party Raid solution. If what you want to do is span a volume, mirror a volume or add a striped volume, that can be done. The reason all your options are greyed out is that you have no unallocated partitions. Only unallocated partitions can be the second part of span or mirror. In order to make a striped volume, you will need to create at least two unallocated partitions on different drives. They need to be roughly the same size. This last bit is only as a practical matter as any space above the size of the smallest partition will be lost. Hope this helps you. If you have any...
you prob only have a basic version of windows like "home" you have to have a upgraded version of windows like "ultimate"/"professional" to use the raid options in windows.

don't know what version of windows your running so cant tell you what lvl you have to have to get raid for your version
 

Aedan929

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I just tried it, but it didnt work.
 

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I hit mark as solution instead of reply. Sorry! I have win 10 PRO
 

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I did some checking. First thing to know is that the Raid 5 option is only for Windows Server. If that's what you are trying to do, you'll need a third party Raid solution. If what you want to do is span a volume, mirror a volume or add a striped volume, that can be done. The reason all your options are greyed out is that you have no unallocated partitions. Only unallocated partitions can be the second part of span or mirror. In order to make a striped volume, you will need to create at least two unallocated partitions on different drives. They need to be roughly the same size. This last bit is only as a practical matter as any space above the size of the smallest partition will be lost. Hope this helps you. If you have any questions feel free to ask or DM me.
 
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