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HDD to SSD mirror cluster !
Win 7, 64bit
For the problem at hand, page down to THE REAL PROBLEM at the bottom of this post. That above are details leading up to it.
I have an older HP Z600. I noticed that one of my 'mirrored' HDD had begun to 'whine' so I
thought it would be a good time to upgrade to SSDs.
I went into 'disk management' and noticed that my 'Disk 1' had a problem. Disk 1 was not the
noisy Disk.
If I booted 'secondary plex', the PC booted without error.
So my two SSD drives arrive yesterday and I install one in 'Disk1' position and go through the
mirror process, they sync'd all went fine and DM indicated no problems.
The 'Disk 1' SSD is LARGER than the HDD 'Disk 0' so my 'Disk 1' had 'unallocated' space.
I wanted to insure that the new SSD, 'Disk 1' would boot so I pulled the HDD 'Disk 0' and
attempted to boot. " no bootable drive/Disk" or similar bios message appeared.
Inserted 'Disk 1' back into PC, chose 'Primary' as the boot device and all was well.
Rebooted and chose 'secondary plex' as boot device. Booted and all is well !
So I'm still uncertain if my SSD will boot so I swap HDD 'Disk 0' to the 'Disk 1' position and SSD to
the 'Disk 0' position.
At this point, I have lost track of the 'exact' sequence of events but here are a couple of things.
The real problem is yet to surface.
After swapping drives around with and without both being inserted I now have THREE choices
in the 'mirrored' boot Disk option screen. Primary and TWO 'secondary plex' options.
Choosing 'Primary' : Normal boot results
Choosing 1st 'secondary plex' results in: 'black screen' attempting to repair, with 'unable to
repair' or something similar.
Choosing 2nd 'secondary plex' results in: Normal boot.
At this point, I have two items I'm working through:
- will the new SSD boot ?
- how do I increase the 'mirrored' SSD to it's full capacity so when I add the second SSD and
perform the 'sync', I have full capacity on both SSD drives.
THE REAL PROBLEM
Doing lots of reading on HDD to SSD swaps and most of it deals LARGER HDD to SMALLER SSD
I decided to attempt to reach full capacity on the mirrored SSD, second 'secondary plex' (I
assume).
I go into 'Admin Tools / Disk Management.
Disk 0 (HDD) shows Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump) and Type: Dynamic
Disk 1 (SDD) shows , (I don't remember what it showed exactly) but no problems and listed as
Type: 'Dynamic' with 'unallocated' of approximately 80GB.
I clicked on Disk 1 (SSD) and chose 'extend volume', what happened next floored me.
Disk 1 (SSD) changed to full capacity AND (C
Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump) and
Type: Dynamic
however
Disk 0 (HDD) changed to (F Disk and only 'healthy', with Type: Dynamic
Both Disks: Layout:simple
Current 'right click' options:
Disk 0 (F : Open, Explore, Extend Volume, Shrink Volume, Change drive Letter and Paths,
Format, Delete Volume, Properties and Help.
Disk1 (C: Open, Explore, Shrink Volume, Change drive Letter and Paths, Properties and Help.
So at this point, I have no idea what will happen if I attempt to reboot.
Looking at 'files modified' today, Disk 1 shows to be the active disk. Disk 0 shows no modified
files today.
Pagefile.sys on both Disk 0 and Disk 1 are identical in size and dated yesterday about the
time this cluster started.
Looking for advice to insure I will have a bootable machine.
Am looking into into getting a complete bootable back-up in the interim.
Thanks in advance !
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Win 7, 64bit
For the problem at hand, page down to THE REAL PROBLEM at the bottom of this post. That above are details leading up to it.
I have an older HP Z600. I noticed that one of my 'mirrored' HDD had begun to 'whine' so I
thought it would be a good time to upgrade to SSDs.
I went into 'disk management' and noticed that my 'Disk 1' had a problem. Disk 1 was not the
noisy Disk.
If I booted 'secondary plex', the PC booted without error.
So my two SSD drives arrive yesterday and I install one in 'Disk1' position and go through the
mirror process, they sync'd all went fine and DM indicated no problems.
The 'Disk 1' SSD is LARGER than the HDD 'Disk 0' so my 'Disk 1' had 'unallocated' space.
I wanted to insure that the new SSD, 'Disk 1' would boot so I pulled the HDD 'Disk 0' and
attempted to boot. " no bootable drive/Disk" or similar bios message appeared.
Inserted 'Disk 1' back into PC, chose 'Primary' as the boot device and all was well.
Rebooted and chose 'secondary plex' as boot device. Booted and all is well !
So I'm still uncertain if my SSD will boot so I swap HDD 'Disk 0' to the 'Disk 1' position and SSD to
the 'Disk 0' position.
At this point, I have lost track of the 'exact' sequence of events but here are a couple of things.
The real problem is yet to surface.
After swapping drives around with and without both being inserted I now have THREE choices
in the 'mirrored' boot Disk option screen. Primary and TWO 'secondary plex' options.
Choosing 'Primary' : Normal boot results
Choosing 1st 'secondary plex' results in: 'black screen' attempting to repair, with 'unable to
repair' or something similar.
Choosing 2nd 'secondary plex' results in: Normal boot.
At this point, I have two items I'm working through:
- will the new SSD boot ?
- how do I increase the 'mirrored' SSD to it's full capacity so when I add the second SSD and
perform the 'sync', I have full capacity on both SSD drives.
THE REAL PROBLEM
Doing lots of reading on HDD to SSD swaps and most of it deals LARGER HDD to SMALLER SSD
I decided to attempt to reach full capacity on the mirrored SSD, second 'secondary plex' (I
assume).
I go into 'Admin Tools / Disk Management.
Disk 0 (HDD) shows Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump) and Type: Dynamic
Disk 1 (SDD) shows , (I don't remember what it showed exactly) but no problems and listed as
Type: 'Dynamic' with 'unallocated' of approximately 80GB.
I clicked on Disk 1 (SSD) and chose 'extend volume', what happened next floored me.
Disk 1 (SSD) changed to full capacity AND (C
Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump) and Type: Dynamic
however
Disk 0 (HDD) changed to (F
Disk and only 'healthy', with Type: DynamicBoth Disks: Layout:simple
Current 'right click' options:
Disk 0 (F
: Open, Explore, Extend Volume, Shrink Volume, Change drive Letter and Paths, Format, Delete Volume, Properties and Help.
Disk1 (C
: Open, Explore, Shrink Volume, Change drive Letter and Paths, Properties and Help.So at this point, I have no idea what will happen if I attempt to reboot.
Looking at 'files modified' today, Disk 1 shows to be the active disk. Disk 0 shows no modified
files today.
Pagefile.sys on both Disk 0 and Disk 1 are identical in size and dated yesterday about the
time this cluster started.
Looking for advice to insure I will have a bootable machine.
Am looking into into getting a complete bootable back-up in the interim.
Thanks in advance !
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