Super_Spunz

I currently have a Gigabyte GA-H270-HD3 on BIOS Version F8, a Samsung 980 500GB M.2 SSD, and 2 Seagate BarraCuda 2TB HDDs. I want to use the SSD as my boot drive, and the HDDs in RAID 1 as my storage drive, as the title says, but everything I've tried so far has broken something. The most prominent thing I've noticed so far is that for RAID, my motherboard requires BIOS > Peripherals > SATA and RST Configuration > SATA Mode Selection to be set to "Intel RST Premium With Intel Optane System Acceleration" but when I select that, Windows gives me a "Inaccessable Boot Device" code and I can't boot into my SSD. When I set it to "AHCI," I can boot into my SSD just fine. Any suggestions for how I can get this working? Should I just use software "RAID" through Windows instead? I've heard that software RAID is slower, so I would rather use hardware if possible.

Ok. I can fiddle with the permissions, that shouldn’t be too hard. What about desktop icons, for example? Is there a way I be able to get all the same apps in all the same places without having to go through a tedious copy/paste process? I guess I could just use a bunch of shortcuts, but I’d rather save that for last resort.

I want to run Windows 7 and Windows 10 on the same computer, and have them access the same user account. For the purpose of this question, let’s say I have one 2TB mechanical hard drive. I want to partition it three ways and have Windows 7 on “Partition A,” Windows 10 on “Partition B,” and all my files and accounts on “Partition C.” Is there any safe, cheap, relatively simple way to have both iterations of Windows access the same user account on “Partition C”