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    Partitioning a drive

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by lordpanzer, Sep 22, 2011.

  1. lordpanzer

    lordpanzer Notebook Enthusiast

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    I currently had to re-install windows. While installing drivers from dell.com I came noticed my hard drive was reading 465 GB half of my 1 TB I started out before the re-installment of windows. Under computer Management I found my second hard drive because I run a RAID configuration giving me 465 GB and 465 GB for a total of 1 TB. My impression was that I had 2 hard drives but whenever I saved a document I really saved pieces of that document in each drive to decrease time spent loading. This configuration seems to be using one hard drive and using the other one as a security blanket having everything the first hard drive has am I right? Or is this a harddrive not in use and just sitting dormant waiting for me to reinitialize it for use?

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    lordpanzer, Sep 22, 2011
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    SlickDude80 Notebook Prophet

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    your system came with RAID-0 which means that although there were 2 harddrives, your system read it as 1gig...500+500. From the looks of things, you currently only have 500gigs available and the other harddrive is in limbo. Either set up the raid-0 again...

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    partition the second harddrive, assign it a drive letter and use it as a second harddrive
     
    SlickDude80, Sep 23, 2011
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