Windows 10: Windows update just broke my RAID 1 array

The volume was mostly backed up. My video shoot this weekend 6 hours work I cannot reshoot was not backed up yet, so I desperately need to repair the array somehow.


The device is a Lacie 2TB Bolt 3 Thunderbolt. It is a pair of SSDs packaged in one unit. It was configured by Windows as a RAID 1 array.


In Computer Mgmt, the drive is now listed as Disk 3 Dynamic Foreign and Disk 4 Dynamic Foreign.


Is there a way to recover the RAID volume?


I am so frustrated. In August, a Windows update corrupted our Access database, nearly putting me out of business.


UPDATES


Security Update KB4577266

Update KB4571756

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Can I use a RAID 1 drive array as my Windows boot drive?

I am not going to use hardware RAID. I want to use Windows Storage Spaces to create the RAID 1 array from two identical hard drives.

Do I install Windows on the first hard drive then create the RAID array using Storage Spaces?

When I create the RAID array will Windows automatically mirror the Windows installation including the boot partition to the second drive so the RAID array is bootable?

Are their any steps unique to this setup that I must follow when installing Windows or creating the RAID array so that the RAID array will be bootable?

 

Trouble creating a RAID 1 Array

Originally, I wanted to create a RAID 1 Array using USB Drives lying around and test it out and see how well RAID 1 works. A message popped up when I clicked on the partition I wanted to mirror and said the operation failed because the Disk Management
Console is not up to date. It suggested I refresh it, relaunch it, or even restart my computer. I tried all three things, and it still wouldn't let me mirror the partition. Then I realized that maybe Windows won't let me create a RAID 1 Array on USB Drives,
so I went to the original plan I was going to do and grabbed my 500GB External HDD and my 120GB External SSD (they are both USB 3.0 connected enclosures) and when I tried to mirror a partition on my 500GB HDD using my SSD, it wouldn't let me use the SSD to
mirror it. So then I tried using my internal windows 10 SSD to mirror my HDD. But, I needed to shrink my main partition on my internal SSD and it wouldn't let me shrink it saying there was a certain amount I could shrink it to, but I could only shrink 135MB
at max and I have 89.4GB free on that partition. Any suggestions and help would be appreciated (and by the way, if you're wondering why I'm trying to run RAID 1 on an external HDD/SSD is just for testing and more file redundancy and performance).

 

Windows 10 update 1909 breaks my RAID array

Hi,



Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.



We understand your concern as the RAID array breaks after Windows 10 1909 update and you want to know, if there is any option to prevent such issue.



Let me point you in the right direction, where you would get the appropriate help for this issue. I would suggest you to post your query in

TechNet forums, where we have experts and support professionals who are well equipped with the knowledge on RAID Array to assist you with the appropriate troubleshooting steps.



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Aditya Roy

Microsoft Community – Moderator