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I have used same computer thru 3 different windows verison and as you can guess, computer has been getting little slow and full. So now i decided install fresh os but i want to keep my games and other stuff. 

My configuration is 240gb ssd for os

and two 1tb hard drives.

 

I want to merge those two disks together so i would have one ssd and 2tb drive, but i dont wanna lose my data on those two hard drives.

Does windows raid setup empy disks or am i safe?

Yes setting up a raid will erase the disks you want to put in raid. this is the whole purpose of raid unfortunately. Move all the data off the drives, RAID them, and then place the stuff back on.

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I have used same computer thru 3 different windows verison and as you can guess, computer has been getting little slow and full. So now i decided install fresh os but i want to keep my games and other stuff. 

My configuration is 240gb ssd for os

and two 1tb hard drives.

 

I want to merge those two disks together so i would have one ssd and 2tb drive, but i dont wanna lose my data on those two hard drives.

Does windows raid setup empy disks or am i safe?

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I have used same computer thru 3 different windows verison and as you can guess, computer has been getting little slow and full. So now i decided install fresh os but i want to keep my games and other stuff. 

My configuration is 240gb ssd for os

and two 1tb hard drives.

 

I want to merge those two disks together so i would have one ssd and 2tb drive, but i dont wanna lose my data on those two hard drives.

Does windows raid setup empy disks or am i safe?

Yes setting up a raid will erase the disks you want to put in raid. this is the whole purpose of raid unfortunately. Move all the data off the drives, RAID them, and then place the stuff back on.

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Yes setting up a raid will erase the disks you want to put in raid. this is the whole purpose of raid unfortunately. Move all the data off the drives, RAID them, and then place the stuff back on.

Even if it is spanned raid? Shame to move over terabyte of data to usb 2 external hard drive  :wacko:

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Even if it is spanned raid? Shame to move over terabyte of data to usb 2 external hard drive  :wacko:

Yeah it has to be formatted to do that from when i did it. It sucks but when you overhaul you can expect a days work. 

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