OK, I thought this would be a lot easier than this. I have two 2TB hard drives in a RAID 1 array in my system today as my data store and run the OS and apps off an SSD drive. I want to replace these two drives with two 3TB hard drives again in a RAID 1 array. I thought I could just swap the drives out and create a new array in the BIOS and Win7 64bit would be OK. But when I go into Disk Management from the Control Panel, it only sees the first 2TB of the RAID and sees another 700GB+ for the remainder. I don't see an option for partitioning the array as GUID. If I work with the drives as stand alone drives, then I can partition them as GUID for the full drive size. I'm using the GSATA3_5 and 6 ports for the array.
What I am doing wrong?
And the second part of my problem. I thought I could take either one of the 2TB drives that were formerly part of my RAID 1 array and pop them into another SATA port and copy the files to the new array. However, when Win7 sees these drives now it says they have to be formatted. I thought the whole purpose for RAID 1 was for both drives to carry the same data and allow for easy recovery and no lose of data if one of the drives fail. How do I get at the data on these drives once they are not part of the array?
Thanks for any help.
What I am doing wrong?
And the second part of my problem. I thought I could take either one of the 2TB drives that were formerly part of my RAID 1 array and pop them into another SATA port and copy the files to the new array. However, when Win7 sees these drives now it says they have to be formatted. I thought the whole purpose for RAID 1 was for both drives to carry the same data and allow for easy recovery and no lose of data if one of the drives fail. How do I get at the data on these drives once they are not part of the array?
Thanks for any help.
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