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Plug new drive into computer via SATA.
Go to Disk Management. 
Mirror the two drives by right click each and converting them to dynamic disk then right clicking D and putting it in a RAID 1 with the new drive. 
Then, once they are done syncing, remove drive D. Go back to Disk Management and remove the new drive from a RAID 1 array and it should be like normal.

 

If the drive is bigger and you wish to use the extra space, just extend the volume on that drive with the spare space. 

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Plug new drive into computer via SATA.

Go to Disk Management. 

Mirror the two drives by right click each and converting them to dynamic disk then right clicking D and putting it in a RAID 1 with the new drive. 

Then, once they are done syncing, remove drive D. Go back to Disk Management and remove the drive from a RAID 1 array and it should be like normal.

 

If the drive is bigger and you wish to use the extra space, just extend the volume on that drive with the spare space. 

Im going to try that not,and if anything goes wrong I will leave a post

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Plug new drive into computer via SATA.

Go to Disk Management. 

Mirror the two drives by right click each and converting them to dynamic disk then right clicking D and putting it in a RAID 1 with the new drive. 

Then, once they are done syncing, remove drive D. Go back to Disk Management and remove the new drive from a RAID 1 array and it should be like normal.

 

If the drive is bigger and you wish to use the extra space, just extend the volume on that drive with the spare space. 

Doesa the new drive have to be completely formated and not have any partitions to be mirrored?

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Doesa the new drive have to be completely formated and not have any partitions to be mirrored?

No, I believe you just need a partition and you can RAID 1 the partitions themselves.

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Those are the only options when I right click D.

It's already dynamic, so now try right clicking the "Mirror" partition on the other drive and see if "Add Mirror" is available there. If it's not, then you might have to format that new drive and make it a mirror of drive D. Then just use the rest of the space for whatever you want, or just let them sync, then expand the partition after removing the mirror, so you'd effectively have moved everything from drive D to the new drive, then gave it more space. Then you can use drive D for whatever.

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It's already dynamic, so now try right clicking the "Mirror" partition on the other drive and see if "Add Mirror" is available there. If it's not, then you might have to format that new drive and make it a mirror of drive D. Then just use the rest of the space for whatever you want, or just let them sync, then expand the partition after removing the mirror, so you'd effectively have moved everything from drive D to the new drive, then gave it more space. Then you can use drive D for whatever.

Nvm I got it to work I had to reformat the new drive and make it a unallocated partition

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