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Windows Raid 1 Setup / Cloning

FuzzyLobster
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I created a windows mirror pool for 2 5TB HDD's. Im trying to clone my current 1TB drive over to the array but i keep getting a sector size error. From doing a little bit of research my WD 1 TB blue drive uses 512 bytes/sector and the Windows pool array uses 4096 bytes/sector. When i cloned my 1 TB HDD to the single 5TB hdd not in a pool, everything worked. If anyone knows a way to change the secort size in a windows 10 pool or a software other than macrium reflect that will allow me to do this please let me know.image.png.ba4fc244d2cca7236957344695f5fe98.png

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Win10 runs all HDD at the 4k sector. WD does have a utility that converts from 512 sector to the 4k sector. They're for old drives, your drive may not work. Backup data before using utility, cause there will be a very high chance it will get corrupted.

.https://support.wdc.com/downloads.aspx?p=128&lang=en

 

 

 

 

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3 minutes ago, FuzzyLobster said:

How come all my other hard drives show up as 512 sectors then?image.png.7526a2d294c43892860398a4dc2cb48d.png

WD does have a utility that converts from 512 sector to the 4k sector. They're for old drives, your drive may not work. Backup data before using utility, cause there will be a very high chance it will get corrupted.

https://support.wdc.com/downloads.aspx?p=128&lang=en

 

 

 

 

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8 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

Win10 runs all HDD at the 4k sector. WD does have a utility that converts from 512 sector to the 4k sector. They're for old drives, your drive may not work. Backup data before using utility, cause there will be a very high chance it will get corrupted.

.https://support.wdc.com/downloads.aspx?p=128&lang=en

 

Could this have also been why on the disk management program the option for mirror isn't available unless you create the pool first?

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8 minutes ago, FuzzyLobster said:

yeah. Im using windows 10 home and I setup a mirrored pool which i guess is the same as raid 1.

I personally never used windows RAID because you have to setup the HDD as Dynamic, where the drive cannot be viewed from another computer, unless you you perform some additional steps . Before any of those new RAID solution existed, I used to just run RAID from the motherboard or Intel RAID.

 

 

 

 

 

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12 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

I personally never used windows RAID because you have to setup the HDD as Dynamic, where the drive cannot be viewed from another computer, unless you you perform some additional steps . Before any of those new RAID solution existed, I used to just run RAID from the motherboard or Intel RAID.

 

 

ok thanks for the help. Im using a b150 mobo so i dont think it supports raid.

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1 minute ago, NumLock21 said:

Okay so that chipset don't have RAID support. Looks like your only option is through Windows or a SATA RAID PCIe card.

I think im probably just going to try to do it through windows. I was reading somewhere that you needed windows 10 Pro in order to do mirroring but i'm still not sure if thats the case since i have it setup (I think). Ill probably backup the data then use the 512 to 4k sector, then try to clone it to the array. Anyway thanks for the help.

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