This man is awesome. I really enjoy the way he make our live more easy. By the way Eli the Computer Guy you should continue making videos about Windows Server 2012 for the people like me that were studying to get certified, i got the 2 books that you recommended for study in a previews videos, and everything goes perfectly, but your fans will really appreciate it ☺
Eli, you definitely explained this to a user friendly level. I am forced to learn Server 2012 R2 now because of my job promotion. I am new to the system administrator world, but your videos definitely makes learning fun and easy.
Very well explained. Yes, I will take your advice and play with this in my lab and get VERY comfortable before performing this at my job. Again, thanks for sharing your professional expertise and knowledge.
Damn Eli, you just make things so much simpler to understand. Thank you very much for taking your time to making this video. I am currently studying for my Server 2012 Exam and this video was a life saver.
The four drives you've added as a spanned volume won't be available to be used in a pool. If you've been following along and there is no data on them, you *could* co to Computer Management and delete the spanned volume. If you refresh the Storage Pool they should show up as available. You mentioned two drives you've added since then also aren't showing as available for the pool. Go to Computer Management and ensure the two drives are shown there and are ONLINE. They may have been added offline.
You should consider doing instructional videos for full certification. I just drudged through CBTnuggets and Trainsignal videos to get my MCSA 2012 Certification, and this one video helped more than watching CBTnuggets 2-3 times per topic. You could make some serious money and do lots of people a huge favor at the same time!
sir ur leactures are really usefull for me I am thanking ur for helping me because of ur leacture i can able to learn more about serves. You are the greate
Thanks Eli. Just set up a storage pool for my Server Backup, but as both drives already had data on them they would not show up in server manager as being available to join a pool. (Running WSE2012 BTW) Anyhow, I was able to create the pool (and volume) easily by going to the dashboard Storage/Hard Drives/Advanced: Manage Storage Spaces and create a pool/volume from there in only a couple of steps. Cheers and keep up the great work on this series it's a great help
Hi, Eli. Thanks for all your awesome videos. I'll continue to watch them until I'm fully capable of expanding my company to businesses as well as home users. I have a question: How would I go about removing and replacing physical HDD's without having to spend heaps of time copying and pasting? For example, if I had 10 HDD's connected to a server and had no more ports to connect drives to, but needed more storage space and all the drives were full, how could I go about replacing the HDD's with bigger ones - without having to copy and paste the contents of the old drive to the new one? Thank you to anyone who answers and Eli, keep up the good work!
please make videos for full mastering in windows server course which includes real time functioning of what system administrators did in production environment like use of different tools and all
First a comment then a question. Eli you have become my number one translator for MS documentation. You speak english, they don't. Thanks and keep the vids coming Now the question is when using Storage Spaces, does this pertain to data only? Is the OS and system state also made fault tolerant? Are scheduled system backups the best way to safe guard the system state? Okay it's more than one question.
It's not a traditional RAID1 type of mirror. It is more akin to the older Windows Home Server type where it will place a duplicate of a file on *at least* one other physical drive. If you have only two drives, then it is a standard 1:1 mirror where you get 50% space. Also the MS Virt. disk allows overprovisioning but that is outisde the scope of this lesson. I.E. you're correct - you won't get the full 90 GB with those drives but it is prepped to add more drives to allow the 90 GB.
Unlike LVM, Storage Spaces does not allow you to shrink a virtual disk. This is usually modestly kept silent until the administrator runs into a problem when it is necessary to reduce the disk (for example, to transfer free space to a different disk). The comparison of these partition managers is not entirely correct.
Id just like to add to this something that isn't mentioned a lot, the unallocated disks MUST be larger than 4gb to show up in the primordial storage pool, if the disks are smaller than that they won't show up there and it will simply say no storage pools exist, took me several days to figure that one out, I thought it was a bug
Fixed provisioning you can not change size ( increase ). Thin - you start with like 2GB of data, and you allocate 20 GB, so the more you save the larger your disk becomes until reach 20GB. Than you buy more HDD/space. So you do not use all space in thing provisioning-that space can be used for other purpose...
Hi, What is the difference between storage pools and dynamic disk in the disk management? Because from my perspective, they basically doing the same thing like expend, shrink a existing disk.
Since you are on a VM, isn't a physical disk actually a file created when the VM was created? And when you create the virtual disks and are choosing a layout, is it stripping, mirroring or Parity across files?
In the "Storage Layout", you chose "Mirror" layout, but you create a virtual disk that has 72GB of capacity. Sorry, I don't understand... What's exactly is mirrored? Sorry for my stupid question and thank you so much!
Great video Quick question, if your data is spread out over 1 or 2 drives, shouldn't that mean that you lose some storage space? or is it physically copying the file to the other drives causing every file to just take up 3 times the amount of space?
Well if you update your bios without remembering the settings on the raid your raid 0 hard drives is kapuz. It's basically it's software raid/spanning. You get maximum speed out of multiple drives unlike windows spanning.
eli, excellent video For these storage pools, is the reason you were able to allocate a 96GB mirror to only 96GB of space due to the Thin provisioning?
I would like to thank you for uploading videos related to Win ser 2012.I have a question on this storage spaces and pools.1)When we are configuring raid in 2012 while creating volumes out of HDD's,it it going to be software RAID? what if I already have hardware raid ?will this complicate or better to just have raid using storage pools.How reliable is this RAID in terms of data volume(Storage pool).
Eli...what happens when any faults occur in Windows server OS , like there is need of re installation.??! is there any way to cluster the server..? if so can you please do a class for that? it will be very helpful....
What about the disk that the windows is booted off of? Can it be part of a new storage pool , virtual disk. Or it does delete it when you create virtual disk or the volume ?!
Hey there, nice video. I have taken over a site where we have 4 x 2TB disks RAID5. I can see there is a storage pool "Data" which includes 2 disks, capacity 1.8TB each, then a Virtual disk of 2.66TB, then a volume of 2.66TB (1.74TB free). I can see under the storage pool, it's capacity is 3.16TB with only 480GB free space where as the actual volume has 1.76TB free. Is this a concern?
Hello, im a little confuse, see you add 3 25GB to the storage pool which i equal to 72GB Total size buy when you setup the storage layout @7:57 to mirror, you still have the same size .. how come? what i really thought is that when you set that up to mirror you will cut the size to half because if the mirroring effect.. but yet you still have the complete size of all 3 size. sorry im really confused.. im actually following this tutorial at my very best.. Thank you and more power sir.
Is there much of a performance impact if any with using software based storage spaces vs having the physical disk array controller card manage the RAID?
If you have a host machine and on that one hard drive you break it up in to pools and volumes and harddrives, what if the host machine fails? What does all that mixed raid stuff matter? I run virtual box too and could experiment with this but on a single machine with one harddisk there is no reason for any sort of raid or complicated redundancy if there is only one physical disk in the real world.
I wonder how windows manages this when you have multiple physical drives that are different sizes. I.E (250GB system disk/not a factor) 1TB / 2TB / 3TB in one pool With mirror or parity Virtual Disks. Obviously using like size disks would be optimal.
Happy thanksgiving. question: can you do a role/policy base on Storage space. like an HSM system.. without spending the money on like an EMC diskextender etc.
thanks a lot for video. I am looking for for some help with requirement as, i want one drive available at all times to all the nodes irrespective of which node is active. can you please explain how can i implement it. thanks
One question. If the size of the first virtual disk is 72gb and a volume was created at 72gb, then how can it perform mirroring of a 72gb volume on a 72gb disk? Shouldn't the volume be at most 72gb / 2 = 36gb? Thanks for the amazing tutorials.
it will show as 72gb as he chose the maximum size when creating the vdisk to be 72gb, but it wont allow you to use 72gb without adding other drives when it reaches its mirrored limit 36gb. you can create the vdisk as any size you like, he could have chose 1TB , and it would show up as a 1TB drive, even though the physical size was only 72gb.
Thin provisioning allows you to create a virtual space "to be used", and not the real available space, so you can go on adding more and more disks to that virtual volume.
Hello there, please allow me to ask what happens, if the Windows Server OS disk fails? Is the whole Storage Pool and therefore all data lost? I am not experienced with servers, I only know that in Nas4Free, you save the server's config file and can always reinstall the OS. Is there a similar feature with WS 2012? Thanks!
is this necessary if the windows install is on vsphere infrastructure and the storage is a San? can I just stick to regular shares without worrying about virtual disks and storage pools?
Can drives from other file storage servers (separated geographically or even within a building or DC) be added to a pool in a primary file storage server?
The problem with RAID 5 is that Unrecoverable Read Errors (UREs) will fry your array when you try to rebuild it (after replacing a failed disk). RAID 5 is poison and should be avoided unless you're operating in a SAN environment where data checksums (CRCs) are applied to every cluster written. These checksums guard against corrupt data (either from UREs or general "bit rot") by telling the operating system which disk in the mirror has the correct data.
what is the problem if i enable the DISK Protection error pop up says: " THE NUMBER OF PARTITIONS HAS REACHED THE LIMIT ON A DISK" ?? can you help me with this guys??
I have 4, 8 TB drives and I just added another. When I go to extend my volume I get this error: Error extending volume: Size Not Supported Extend information: The volume cannot be extended. The number of clusters will exceed the maximum number of clusters supported by the file system. I checked and for some reason the cluster size is 512kb?!?!?
Hi Eli, can i ask what if my harddisk configuration that is in a raid and i ran out of storage space. can i use the same way as you said to increase the storage space?
I created a vmware virtual machine with 4 hard disks, 1 hard disk to operation system and 3 disks to microsoft windows storage pool. I created a 30 GB storage pool and a virtual disk storage pool e volume with the same size, 30 GB. To increase the size of storage pool, I increased the size of the 3 vmware disks existents. Now, i can´t extend the storage pool, and i can´t the extend virtual disk storage pool, and i can´t extend volume. Is there a way to fix the situation?
From what I understand virtual space can be any size, but where in Windows would it tell you that the virtual space is about to exceed the physical space?
for some reason when I go to storage Pools I dont see any physical drive although I followed your last video in creating those virtual drives, any ideas people?
I figured it out, FYI people... if you run into this situation just delete the volumes you created as Spanning from video 19 so they become unallocated and try again, they will be detected now as physical Disks when trying to create storage Pool...... Eli forgot to mention that in his video.
can someone confirm ?? If i were to build my hdd file server on this virtual route, could i then add a further set of HDDs as 1 to the already virtual setup ? Cheers.
I got a big problem sir. Hope you can help me. I build pc. I got ssd and hdd, 250gb and 1Tb respectively. I install os on ssd, now I want to format the hdd to install all my games there but when I check on disk management, nothing appears. But when I check storage pool the HDD appears there and the storage pool got setup already without my permission. I also try cmd to see the hdd but nothing appears. I want to create partition using disk management. I dont want the storage pool thing. How to fix this. note: Bios reads the hdd as well but nothing appear inside os
My disks were not showing up initially as I had already created a volume with them in disk management. I deleted the volume and then they showed up in the storage pools console. Try deleting the volume in disk management first and see if that helps.
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You're a pimp dude. I learn more from a 20 min video than reading x hours from my textbooks Keep it up bro
Short, clear, and to the point.
This man is awesome. I really enjoy the way he make our live more easy. By the way Eli the Computer Guy you should continue making videos about Windows Server 2012 for the people like me that were studying to get certified, i got the 2 books that you recommended for study in a previews videos, and everything goes perfectly, but your fans will really appreciate it ☺
This is the best Windows server classes i have seen. you are the best mehn... you make it look so simple to operate the server
Eli, you definitely explained this to a user friendly level. I am forced to learn Server 2012 R2 now because of my job promotion. I am new to the system administrator world, but your videos definitely makes learning fun and easy.
Best Teacher Ever!!
Thanks Eli
Excellent video. I've been considering replacing a *nix based NAS unit with a Windows Server 2012 server. This is exactly what I was looking for.
Very well explained. Yes, I will take your advice and play with this in my lab and get VERY comfortable before performing this at my job. Again, thanks for sharing your professional expertise and knowledge.
Very informative. I started the video knowing nothing about storage pools, but you did a great job explaining it all.
Damn Eli, you just make things so much simpler to understand. Thank you very much for taking your time to making this video. I am currently studying for my Server 2012 Exam and this video was a life saver.
So, can you combine disks of different sizes, and how does the system alert me if a physical disk fails?
The four drives you've added as a spanned volume won't be available to be used in a pool. If you've been following along and there is no data on them, you *could* co to Computer Management and delete the spanned volume. If you refresh the Storage Pool they should show up as available.
You mentioned two drives you've added since then also aren't showing as available for the pool. Go to Computer Management and ensure the two drives are shown there and are ONLINE. They may have been added offline.
Thank you for this,I thought that it was a virtualization problem with VMWare initially!
This is very useful for SQL Server, It's what I am looking for!
You should consider doing instructional videos for full certification. I just drudged through CBTnuggets and Trainsignal videos to get my MCSA 2012 Certification, and this one video helped more than watching CBTnuggets 2-3 times per topic. You could make some serious money and do lots of people a huge favor at the same time!
great overview cleared up a lot of question I had about using this type of setup instead of going with the traditional SAN box.
sir ur leactures are really usefull for me I am thanking ur for helping me because of ur leacture i can able to learn more about serves. You are the greate
Thanks,very useful.Currently studying MCSA/MCSE.
man u are the best teacher
Thanks Eli. Just set up a storage pool for my Server Backup, but as both drives already had data on them they would not show up in server manager as being available to join a pool. (Running WSE2012 BTW) Anyhow, I was able to create the pool (and volume) easily by going to the dashboard Storage/Hard Drives/Advanced: Manage Storage Spaces and create a pool/volume from there in only a couple of steps. Cheers and keep up the great work on this series it's a great help
Hi, Eli. Thanks for all your awesome videos. I'll continue to watch them until I'm fully capable of expanding my company to businesses as well as home users.
I have a question: How would I go about removing and replacing physical HDD's without having to spend heaps of time copying and pasting?
For example, if I had 10 HDD's connected to a server and had no more ports to connect drives to, but needed more storage space and all the drives were full, how could I go about replacing the HDD's with bigger ones - without having to copy and paste the contents of the old drive to the new one?
Thank you to anyone who answers and Eli, keep up the good work!
please make videos for full mastering in windows server course which includes real time functioning of what system administrators did in production environment like use of different tools and all
I don’t know how to praise you 😀 thanks man 👍
Thank you for taking the time to make this tutorial
I wish my instructors were this good
First a comment then a question.
Eli you have become my number one translator for MS documentation. You speak english, they don't. Thanks and keep the vids coming
Now the question is when using Storage Spaces, does this pertain to data only? Is the OS and system state also made fault tolerant? Are scheduled system backups the best way to safe guard the system state? Okay it's more than one question.
Hey Eli can you make a video on VHD and VHDx
It's not a traditional RAID1 type of mirror. It is more akin to the older Windows Home Server type where it will place a duplicate of a file on *at least* one other physical drive. If you have only two drives, then it is a standard 1:1 mirror where you get 50% space. Also the MS Virt. disk allows overprovisioning but that is outisde the scope of this lesson. I.E. you're correct - you won't get the full 90 GB with those drives but it is prepped to add more drives to allow the 90 GB.
Unlike LVM, Storage Spaces does not allow you to shrink a virtual disk. This is usually modestly kept silent until the administrator runs into a problem when it is necessary to reduce the disk (for example, to transfer free space to a different disk). The comparison of these partition managers is not entirely correct.
Id just like to add to this something that isn't mentioned a lot, the unallocated disks MUST be larger than 4gb to show up in the primordial storage pool, if the disks are smaller than that they won't show up there and it will simply say no storage pools exist, took me several days to figure that one out, I thought it was a bug
Will try and do this
Fixed provisioning you can not change size ( increase ). Thin - you start with like 2GB of data, and you allocate 20 GB, so the more you save the larger your disk becomes until reach 20GB. Than you buy more HDD/space. So you do not use all space in thing provisioning-that space can be used for other purpose...
Great vídeo and explanation. Thanks from Brazil.
love these videos :-) Thanks!
I have disks and I dont have the primordial storage pool, can somebody tell me why?
Would have been great for you to have shrunk the volume to show us the issues. I left IT 10 years ago...it used to be such a headache.
Hi,
What is the difference between storage pools and dynamic disk in the disk management? Because from my perspective, they basically doing the same thing like expend, shrink a existing disk.
***** I agree, I see no reason to use it... storage services vs disk management ...
hell somebody can explain me what is it the difference please?
Since you are on a VM, isn't a physical disk actually a file created when the VM was created? And when you create the virtual disks and are choosing a layout, is it stripping, mirroring or Parity across files?
Well done Eli - this is good stuff
you are great excelent teacher
Thank you sooooooooo much Eli
In the "Storage Layout", you chose "Mirror" layout, but you create a virtual disk that has 72GB of capacity. Sorry, I don't understand... What's exactly is mirrored? Sorry for my stupid question and thank you so much!
Very much appreciation for your awesome training.
I wanna know if you have any training classes that poeple like me can come and take part?
Great video and great explanation! Thank you
Great video
Quick question, if your data is spread out over 1 or 2 drives, shouldn't that mean that you lose some storage space? or is it physically copying the file to the other drives causing every file to just take up 3 times the amount of space?
Hello!
What is the advantage of using storage pool, instead of creating a volume directly from the physical disks?
Thank you very much.
Well if you update your bios without remembering the settings on the raid your raid 0 hard drives is kapuz. It's basically it's software raid/spanning. You get maximum speed out of multiple drives unlike windows spanning.
Fa Vang It still is being emulated by Windows. Its just a better version of software raid.
awesome youtube channel !!
eli, excellent video
For these storage pools, is the reason you were able to allocate a 96GB mirror to only 96GB of space due to the Thin provisioning?
Hat off to you
I would like to thank you for uploading videos related to Win ser 2012.I have a question on this storage spaces and pools.1)When we are configuring raid in 2012 while creating volumes out of HDD's,it it going to be software RAID? what if I already have hardware raid ?will this complicate or better to just have raid using storage pools.How reliable is this RAID in terms of data volume(Storage pool).
Eli...what happens when any faults occur in Windows server OS , like there is need of re installation.??!
is there any way to cluster the server..?
if so can you please do a class for that?
it will be very helpful....
This tut is informative.
Thanks!
Awesome Tuts. :)
Really helpful.
Respect from Pak.
What about the disk that the windows is booted off of? Can it be part of a new storage pool , virtual disk. Or it does delete it when you create virtual disk or the volume ?!
Thanks!!, you teach great!!!
Hey there, nice video. I have taken over a site where we have 4 x 2TB disks RAID5. I can see there is a storage pool "Data" which includes 2 disks, capacity 1.8TB each, then a Virtual disk of 2.66TB, then a volume of 2.66TB (1.74TB free). I can see under the storage pool, it's capacity is 3.16TB with only 480GB free space where as the actual volume has 1.76TB free. Is this a concern?
Can you create more then 1 virtual disk and volume from 1 storage pool?
Excellent explanation, keep up good work!
Very useful video sir, I like it.
Hello, im a little confuse, see you add 3 25GB to the storage pool which i equal to 72GB Total size buy when you setup the storage layout @7:57 to mirror, you still have the same size .. how come? what i really thought is that when you set that up to mirror you will cut the size to half because if the mirroring effect.. but yet you still have the complete size of all 3 size.
sorry im really confused.. im actually following this tutorial at my very best..
Thank you and more power sir.
like your videos Eli very informative
Thank you eli!
Is there much of a performance impact if any with using software based storage spaces vs having the physical disk array controller card manage the RAID?
If you have a host machine and on that one hard drive you break it up in to pools and volumes and harddrives, what if the host machine fails? What does all that mixed raid stuff matter? I run virtual box too and could experiment with this but on a single machine with one harddisk there is no reason for any sort of raid or complicated redundancy if there is only one physical disk in the real world.
I wonder how windows manages this when you have multiple physical drives that are different sizes. I.E (250GB system disk/not a factor) 1TB / 2TB / 3TB in one pool With mirror or parity Virtual Disks. Obviously using like size disks would be optimal.
Happy thanksgiving. question: can you do a role/policy base on Storage space. like an HSM system.. without spending the money on like an EMC diskextender etc.
Solid video. Thank you!
What if one of the hard drive fails or I want to replace one because I have a bigger one but no more phisycal space for it?
thanks a lot for video. I am looking for for some help with requirement as, i want one drive available at all times to all the nodes irrespective of which node is active. can you please explain how can i implement it.
thanks
thanks man!! awesome video
Taking articulation to the next level! hahah Love your videos though. Too bad you left YT
Awesome video!!! Subscribed.
Thank you.
One question.
If the size of the first virtual disk is 72gb and a volume was created at 72gb, then how can it perform mirroring of a 72gb volume on a 72gb disk? Shouldn't the volume be at most 72gb / 2 = 36gb?
Thanks for the amazing tutorials.
I was wondering the same thing.
it will show as 72gb as he chose the maximum size when creating the vdisk to be 72gb, but it wont allow you to use 72gb without adding other drives when it reaches its mirrored limit 36gb. you can create the vdisk as any size you like, he could have chose 1TB , and it would show up as a 1TB drive, even though the physical size was only 72gb.
baworaw Cool! thanks. that's kind of misleading for designing it this way though...
Thats the different when you use Thin Provisioning. Listen to video again and do some google :)
Thin provisioning allows you to create a virtual space "to be used", and not the real available space, so you can go on adding more and more disks to that virtual volume.
nice job brother!
So what function does the virtual disk serve then?
Excellent class thankyou
I created mirrored disk but i just want to ask you were can i find the other "disk" ? Because you can only see 1 disk on "my computer"
Why my Active Directory cannot detect a physical disk? i already add in the hardisk at virtual box
Hello there,
please allow me to ask what happens, if the Windows Server OS disk fails? Is the whole Storage Pool and therefore all data lost? I am not experienced with servers, I only know that in Nas4Free, you save the server's config file and can always reinstall the OS. Is there a similar feature with WS 2012? Thanks!
+brandon pak Hey Brandon, thank you very much for clearing that up!
is this necessary if the windows install is on vsphere infrastructure and the storage is a San? can I just stick to regular shares without worrying about virtual disks and storage pools?
Thank you, Sir.
Can drives from other file storage servers (separated geographically or even within a building or DC) be added to a pool in a primary file storage server?
The problem with RAID 5 is that Unrecoverable Read Errors (UREs) will fry your array when you try to rebuild it (after replacing a failed disk). RAID 5 is poison and should be avoided unless you're operating in a SAN environment where data checksums (CRCs) are applied to every cluster written. These checksums guard against corrupt data (either from UREs or general "bit rot") by telling the operating system which disk in the mirror has the correct data.
can I know what happens when one of the physical disk fail?
what is the problem if i enable the DISK Protection error pop up says: "
THE NUMBER OF PARTITIONS HAS REACHED THE LIMIT ON A DISK" ?? can you
help me with this guys??
Possibilty to add cache disk (ssd)?
it’s seen with parity, the speed is very bad!?
What if a hard drive is dying and you need to swap out a drive? How do you go about this?
I have some catching up to do on the Windows 2012 side.
I have 4, 8 TB drives and I just added another. When I go to extend my volume I get this error:
Error extending volume: Size Not Supported
Extend information:
The volume cannot be extended. The number of clusters will exceed the maximum number of clusters supported by the file system.
I checked and for some reason the cluster size is 512kb?!?!?
if you use simple you will not lose storage space, if you use mirror and parity you will lose storage space.
The same as you would with RAID.
Hey
I have question for all you what is thin provisioning and fixed provisioning. What is it mean?
Hi Eli,
can i ask what if my harddisk configuration that is in a raid and i ran out of storage space.
can i use the same way as you said to increase the storage space?
I created a vmware virtual machine with 4 hard disks, 1 hard disk to operation system and 3 disks to microsoft windows storage pool.
I created a 30 GB storage pool and a virtual disk storage pool e volume with the same size, 30 GB. To increase the size of storage pool, I increased the size of the 3 vmware disks existents. Now, i can´t extend the storage pool, and i can´t the extend virtual disk storage pool, and i can´t extend volume. Is there a way to fix the situation?
you are awesome
What happens if I make a 1TB virtual disk, I only have 200GB physical disk, and I copy files exceeding over 200GB into the virtual disk?
without physical spaces how do you expect to create virtual???
From what I understand virtual space can be any size, but where in Windows would it tell you that the virtual space is about to exceed the physical space?
for some reason when I go to storage Pools I dont see any physical drive although I followed your last video in creating those virtual drives, any ideas people?
I figured it out, FYI people... if you run into this situation just delete the volumes you created as Spanning from video 19 so they become unallocated and try again, they will be detected now as physical Disks when trying to create storage Pool...... Eli forgot to mention that in his video.
can someone confirm ??
If i were to build my hdd file server on this virtual route, could i then add a further set of HDDs as 1 to the already virtual setup ?
Cheers.
I got a big problem sir. Hope you can help me.
I build pc. I got ssd and hdd, 250gb and 1Tb respectively.
I install os on ssd, now I want to format the hdd to install all my games there but when I check on disk management, nothing appears. But when I check storage pool the HDD appears there and the storage pool got setup already without my permission. I also try cmd to see the hdd but nothing appears. I want to create partition using disk management. I dont want the storage pool thing. How to fix this.
note: Bios reads the hdd as well but nothing appear inside os
You have to go to disk management and assign a drive letter.
Then why does it show the full 75gb when eli checks 'computer'? 12:17
I want to add a USB device to a pool but it won't show up...why not?
My disks were not showing up initially as I had already created a volume with them in disk management. I deleted the volume and then they showed up in the storage pools console. Try deleting the volume in disk management first and see if that helps.
I make you a question:. I have a computer all-in-one with Intel Core i3, 2.40GHz, 6GB RAM, windows 8, and x64-bit op system .... -. -.
with this compu I have a little delay of movements (eg I touch w to go forward and it moves 3 seconds later) ... What the f .. I can do so I would not pass this? thanks, greetings: D
thanks alot