Windows 8 Disk mirroring help/advice

Afternoon All,

Hopefully someone can advise as I'm a little stuck.

I have bought a new PC/Server to be used as a media server, I have 2 x 2TB disks installed which I believe I have mirrored, please see below screenshot.



From the reading and research I have done I don't believe if one disk was to fail the other one would work, I think I may need to mirror the EFI system Partition and Recovery Partition of which I'm not too sure how to do this?

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Paul

Hey can anyone advise?

Paul

I think you should have started on the left and worked your way to the right, that's how it works for me anyway.

You appear to have software mirrored your system partition but not the EFI and Recovery partitions (as you suggested). The colours seem right. And you are right. Should disk 0 fail you won't be able to boot of Disk 1????

See my example. But my software mirror is a whole data disc scenario so different from your setup.

No help to you but I would have gone down the route of a hardware RAID mirror from the BIOS (ctrl/I, I think in the startup). Of course this assumes that your motherboard CAN hardware mirror which I expect it can?

Sorry, I don't want to tell you what to do with your system but hardware RAID is more efficient than software RAID and easier to setup and maintain.

my 2c worth