I have recently installed the Windows 7 on my HP HDX 18 laptop and from two weeks it was working properly. It has two identical WD 500 GB drives which are new. I do not consider that I am doing anything particularly clever here. I installed Windows onto one drives. After the install finished, I transformed each of the drives to be dynamic and then set up the mirroring. The drives are configured with three volumes:
Volume 1: 100Mb System reserved
Volume 2: 248Gb C: drive
Volume 3: 50Gb F: drive
Once this was occupied I left the machine unaccompanied for an hour or two in anticipation of the mirroring finished and the disks showed as being healthy.At the moment, Windows 7 doesn't come with all the necessary drivers for this laptop so I have to go to the HP website, download and install the drivers manually.The trouble seems to be that every time I install a driver that requires a reboot this seems to cause the mirrored C: drive to get out of sync. As a result when the machine after that boots up both drives show up in the windows disk management tool through an alert symbol against them. As a result I then end up not being capable to do very much for the next hour or so while it resynchronizes. Finally the drives show as being healthy again. I have not got as far as installing any helpful software but if this is what I will end up having to put up with to have mirrored volumes I might as well not bother - it's just too much pain. I would rather get properly organized and schedule overnight backups. Has anybody got any suggestion why this is happening and if Windows 7 creates any logs somewhere that might indicate why I am having to put up with all this nonsense? I have used software RAID within Ubuntu on this laptop before and it was never this difficult - it just worked.
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