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Feb. 17th, 2016 06:03 pmI've been considering taking the plunge and letting my Windows 7 (64 bit Ultimate) computer upgrade itself to Windows 10. However, I currently have a RAID set up to entirely mirror the contents of one drive to another identical drive. This is a software RAID using Windows' internal management tool, not a hardware controller. One of the two disks is the boot disk (i.e., I don't have the OS housed on a third separate disk).
I've tried to do some Googling about what is best practice in this situation but am not coming up with much, other than disquieting suggestions that Windows 10 is broken with RAIDS (things like the OS not being able to see RAIDed disks after moving from 7 or 8 to 10, etc.). Apparently later versions of Windows are using something called "Storage Spaces" to accomplish similar effects. That's a village I may have to pillage when I get there.
I feel intuitively that what I ought to do is first un-RAID the two drives (stop mirroring) before attempting to muck about with the OS. (I assume that would in turn mean at least having to rebuild the mirror afterwards, possibly even having to reformat the second drive first. And paranoia tells me I ought to first back up everything valuable on a third external drive or something as well.) But I can't find anyone directly instructing to do so. Advice?
I've tried to do some Googling about what is best practice in this situation but am not coming up with much, other than disquieting suggestions that Windows 10 is broken with RAIDS (things like the OS not being able to see RAIDed disks after moving from 7 or 8 to 10, etc.). Apparently later versions of Windows are using something called "Storage Spaces" to accomplish similar effects. That's a village I may have to pillage when I get there.
I feel intuitively that what I ought to do is first un-RAID the two drives (stop mirroring) before attempting to muck about with the OS. (I assume that would in turn mean at least having to rebuild the mirror afterwards, possibly even having to reformat the second drive first. And paranoia tells me I ought to first back up everything valuable on a third external drive or something as well.) But I can't find anyone directly instructing to do so. Advice?