Base Station Upgrade Hard Drives

Move a RAID 1 Volume to Larger Hard Drive

Use the following steps to move a RAID 1 volume to larger hard drives. The procedure will not require reinstallation of the operating system and will not compromise the current information on the RAID 1 volume.

Replace the first Hard Drive

1. Turn off the system and remove one of the hard drives.

2. Replace it with one of the large hard drives.

3. Turn on the system and boot into Windows*.

Rebuild the Array with the new large Hard Drive and Small original Drive

4. Open the Intel® Rapid Storage Technology user interface (Start > All Programs > Intel > Intel® Rapid Storage Technology).

5. Click Rebuild to another disk.

6. Select the newly added hard drive and click Rebuild.

7. Allow the rebuild to complete.

Set the Disk to Non-RAID

8. Restart the system and enter the Intel® Rapid Storage Technology option ROM by pressing Ctrl and i when prompted.

New Method (3/19)

https://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/19/sln295158/how-to-access-the-raid-controller-setup-in-uefi-configured-systems?lang=en

Press F12 when rebooting

Enter Device Config to select Array

Select Delete and press enter

Select Yes and press enter

Press F4 to Save & Exit , confirm Save

Old Method

• To get Ctrl-I option to show you must change some settings in BIOS

Press F2 when rebooting

turn secure boot off (Secure Boot> Secure Boot Enable ) set to disable

Turn Legacy Rom On (General> Advanced Boot Options) set Enable Legacy Option ROMs

Save and boot Ctrl-I should now work

9. Click Delete RAID Volume.

Note You may see a dialog box warning you of data loss. This warning does not apply to RAID 1; you will still be able to access your data.

10. Click Yes to confirm.

11. Click Exit and shut off the system.

Remove original small Hard drive

12. Remove the original (smaller) hard drive from the system. This will leave only the new (larger) hard drive, acting as a single hard drive (it is no longer part of a RAID volume).

13. Turn on the system and boot into Windows. You may need to change the hard drive priority in order to boot.

Resize filesystem on the single large hard drive

14. From within Windows, use the Windows computer management tools or a third party partitioning software in order to resize the hard drive partition so that it uses the entire capacity of the hard drive.

Note: You will (may) need to remove the two small recovery partitions between C: and the unused space. Use diskpart to do this.

• CMD run as Administrator

• Type diskpart

• Type list disk

• Type select disk N (number of disk shown in list)

• Type list partition

• Type select partition N (number of partition shown in list)

• Type delete partition override

https://superuser.com/questions/1077372/diskpart-cant-delete-a-partition-without-the-force-protected-parameter-set

Install second large hard drive

15. Turn off the system and attach the second large hard drive.

16. Turn on the system and boot into Windows.

Recreate the Raid 1 array

17. Open the Intel Rapid Storage Technology user interface and click the Create icon.

18. Follow the prompts to create a new RAID 1 volume. Your data will then be migrated from the single large hard drive to the new RAID 1 volume.

This is the link if you need to save it somewhere else…

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/boards-and-kits/000005837.html

Change Legacy boot and Seure Boot back in BIOS

reboot and hit "F2"

Disable Legacy boot

Enable Secure Boot.

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