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    after succesfull win8 system recovery on GX60 windows sees 2 separate hdds wen i only have one

    Discussion in 'MSI' started by h00vertime, Oct 4, 2013.

  1. h00vertime

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    I scrapped my 2x64gb ssd raid array in favor of 1x128 gb

    after installing and doing recovery win still sees the split and it looks like this...

    ImageBam

    could someone tell me if/how I can make it see just one drive?? thanks :)
     
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    Your original raid0 setup had a D-Data recovery partition.

    Since you cloned your original setup the D-Data recovery partition is included in the clone.
     
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    cool so how do I change this to make it see just the 1 ssd I have in the machine at the moment?
     
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    I tried merging them with that software and nothing happened. also it has hijacked my browser and installed a load of garbage.
     
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    ah cool iv done it. you have to go to the menu and apply changes. thanks!
     
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    You should be able to extend a partition on the drive to take up the rest of the space in the default windows tool.
     
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    Easeus is better as it allows tinkering with the system partition - windows doesn't AFAIK.
     
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    cool i downloaded that anvil thing and these are the results i got.. ImageBam

    ha means absoloubtly nothing to me. is it all ok?
     
    h00vertime, Oct 6, 2013
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    ASU shows that the alignment is OK,55% of your Crucial 128GB M4 mSATA SSD is used,your using the Windows 8 built in AHCI storage driver and ASU is set to use incompressible data for the benchmarking.

    Your write speeds are low but on par for that SSD.Usually the 240GB and larger have better write speeds.

    The 4K and QD scores are the important ones.

    You're over 50% of space used on the SSD so performance will be dropping.Try not to go over 80% used.
     
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    cool thanks mate :)
     
    h00vertime, Oct 8, 2013
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