Can someone (Dell Support and/or Forum Member) answer this post. I also have the same setup and just bought a second drive to mirror my internal drive for protection from a hard drive loss but can't find information on how to setup the new drive to mirror my root drive. Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks!
In order to do this you're going to have to forego the cache drive -- make a set of recovery media for your system AND a backup of all the data you have on the sytsem, and then remove the mSATA cache drive and install the mirror drive. Enter setup and change to RAID mode and then restart, pressing CTRL-I when indicated to set up the mirrored pair of drives. Once that's done, boot the system from your recovery media and do a factory restore of the OS -- then reinstall your applications and restore the backup copy of your data files.
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October 16th, 2016 11:00
Can someone (Dell Support and/or Forum Member) answer this post. I also have the same setup and just bought a second drive to mirror my internal drive for protection from a hard drive loss but can't find information on how to setup the new drive to mirror my root drive. Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks!
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October 16th, 2016 14:00
In order to do this you're going to have to forego the cache drive -- make a set of recovery media for your system AND a backup of all the data you have on the sytsem, and then remove the mSATA cache drive and install the mirror drive. Enter setup and change to RAID mode and then restart, pressing CTRL-I when indicated to set up the mirrored pair of drives. Once that's done, boot the system from your recovery media and do a factory restore of the OS -- then reinstall your applications and restore the backup copy of your data files.