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greensand

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Registered: 2025-02-15

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[SOLVED] How to mount Windows 11 dynamic disk ( striped / raid 0 )?

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if anyone somehow ever ends up in this situation in the future. The issue is that ldmtool will need a raid created by windows disk management  and not by third party tools like EaseUS etc.

Basically I have 3 drives
1 SSD
2 HDD's
I have 2 partitions on my SSD, 1 for windows and one for arch, both work normally as dual boot.
both my HDD's  are 1 TB, and I have 2 normal non raid partitions on both, and 2 partitions are raid 0, so 500gb of both for a total of 1TB raid 0.
when I use lsblk -f i don't see any info on the hdd's

lsblk -f output:

NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL  UUID                                 FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
sda                                                                          
├─sda1
│                                                                            
├─sda2
│                                                                            
└─sda3
                                                                             
sdb                                                                          
├─sdb1
│                                                                            
├─sdb2
│                                                                            
└─sdb3
                                                                             
sdc                                                                          
zram0
     swap   1     zram0  f656623d-e202-46e0-84c8-d4b5e66dd0b3                [SWAP]
nvme0n1
│                                                                            
├─nvme0n1p1
│    ntfs         NVME   34B011C6B011900A                       85.9G    81% /mnt/windows
├─nvme0n1p2
│    ntfs         System 2E18BE5318BE1A33                                    
├─nvme0n1p3
│    ntfs                EC6AD4F96AD4C20E                                    
├─nvme0n1p4
│    vfat   FAT32        AEC3-300F                                           
├─nvme0n1p5
│                                                                            
├─nvme0n1p6
│    vfat   FAT32        6F03-B52A                              41.6M    83% /boot
└─nvme0n1p7
     ext4   1.0          e75f86ee-a10e-4f51-a5fb-91d6b0436e79   10.4G    74% /

I found this
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dynamic_disks
and I tried using

 sudo ldmtool create all 

but it doesn't do anything, the output is:

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and if I do

 sudo parted /dev/sda print && sudo parted /dev/sdb print 

I get:

Model: ATA ST1000LM024 HN-M (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 1000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name                          Flags
 1      17.4kB  1066kB  1049kB               LDM metadata partition
 2      1066kB  134MB   133MB                Microsoft reserved partition  msftres
 3      134MB   1000GB  1000GB               LDM data partition

Model: ATA WDC WD10EZEX-00W (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 1000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name                          Flags
 1      17.4kB  1066kB  1049kB               LDM metadata partition
 2      1066kB  16.8MB  15.7MB               Microsoft reserved partition  msftres
 3      16.8MB  1000GB  1000GB               LDM data partition

so how do i mount the correct striped partitions? considering that my Hdd's structure is like this

HDD1
  partition 1 : 500 GB NORMAL
  partition 2 : 500 GB RAID 0 ( with HDD2)

HDD2
  partition 1 : 500 GB NORMAL
  partition 2 : 500 GB RAID 0 ( with HDD1)

also a quick note is that I can mount any partition on the SSD just fine using ntfs-3g

Last edited by greensand (2025-03-01 03:31:56)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: [SOLVED] How to mount Windows 11 dynamic disk ( striped / raid 0 )?

Does a LDM device get created?
Have you tried to scan it, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dynami … r_commands ?

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greensand

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Registered: 2025-02-15

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Re: [SOLVED] How to mount Windows 11 dynamic disk ( striped / raid 0 )?

Does a LDM device get created?
Have you tried to scan it, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dynami … r_commands ?

yea my bad I forgot to include that.
I did use the scan and it gives me the same output as create all, i get

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I also thought it might be hot plug, so i disabled that from bios and it didn't do much