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Can a single hard drive in a storage pool be mirrored?

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A simple pool without redundancy. I only have some files backed up, not the whole drive.

2 1tb WD's and a Seagate 500gb. I've robocopied the entire pool to a 2tb drive I borrowed and 1tb external drive. Should I just delete the entire storage pool and copy the data back on, because I can't seem to remove the 500gb drive without the whole storage pool disappearing.

Could you post a screenshot of your disk management and My Computer? Do you have your OS on the 500GB drive? What is your final aim? To have one 2TB drive and one 1TB drive (replacing the 500GB drive)? You should be able to clone the 500GB drive onto the 1TB drive with no issues. On which drive do you plan on moving the data from the 500GB drive?
 
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I have 3 hard drives combined together in a storage pool, 2 1tb drives and a single 500gb. The old 500gb drive is failing, but I have a 1tb drive to replace it.

Is there a way to take the data from only the 500gb drive and transfer it to the blank terabyte drive, from the Manage Storage Spaces in control panel?
 

(using windows 8.1 pro)

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I have 3 hard drives combined together in a storage pool, 2 1tb drives and a single 500gb. The old 500gb drive is failing, but I have a 1tb drive to replace it.

Is there a way to take the data from only the 500gb drive and transfer it to the blank terabyte drive, from the Manage Storage Spaces in control panel?

 

(using windows 8.1 pro)

 

Hello walrusissi and welcome to Linus Tech Tips forum :)
 
What kind of pool do you have? If the small drive is not in RAID, you can easily just clone it on the larger drive and then either allocate the other 500GB to another partition or expand the current one. What drives do you have? 
 
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A simple pool without redundancy. I only have some files backed up, not the whole drive.
2 1tb WD's and a Seagate 500gb. I've robocopied the entire pool to a 2tb drive I borrowed and 1tb external drive. Should I just delete the entire storage pool and copy the data back on, because I can't seem to remove the 500gb drive without the whole storage pool disappearing.

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A simple pool without redundancy. I only have some files backed up, not the whole drive.

2 1tb WD's and a Seagate 500gb. I've robocopied the entire pool to a 2tb drive I borrowed and 1tb external drive. Should I just delete the entire storage pool and copy the data back on, because I can't seem to remove the 500gb drive without the whole storage pool disappearing.

Could you post a screenshot of your disk management and My Computer? Do you have your OS on the 500GB drive? What is your final aim? To have one 2TB drive and one 1TB drive (replacing the 500GB drive)? You should be able to clone the 500GB drive onto the 1TB drive with no issues. On which drive do you plan on moving the data from the 500GB drive?
 
Captain_WD

If this helped you, like and choose it as best answer - you might help someone else with the same issue. ^_^
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I've copied all the data over manually, which took about a day, basically copied my pool to an external drive and deleted the storage pool, then copy it back. I've already managed replaced the old 500 gb drive. Thanks for the help anyway :)

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I've copied all the data over manually, which took about a day, basically copied my pool to an external drive and deleted the storage pool, then copy it back. I've already managed replaced the old 500 gb drive. Thanks for the help anyway :)

 

You are welcome! Glad to hear to managed to resolve that! :) Happy Holidays!

 

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