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‎01-12-2026 06:06 AM

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Hello. I have a Zbook 17 G8 with original 0,5Tb nvme and I added another nvme to the second slot with same size. I would like to make Raid 1 as whole system needs backup all the time. I found two ways. One easier was to make Raid 1 in windows. But thats not allowed as my main nvme is already installed as boot drive and system does not allow me to use second - empty drive as a mirror for main bootable drive. So second option is I think to use hardware raid 1 which suppose to be possible on this machine. Im aware that before making the raid I probably need to make disc clone to some other storege (by clonezila or some other software) and clone it back once raid is finished. However I found in BIOS followin options which I do not understand. I didnt find any guid for it on HP manuals and so on. Turn on UEFI driver by f3 on startup, but there is only some network booting mac adress shananigens which not appear to have anything to do with Raid or drives for that mater. Other oprion I found is to turn on "vmd controler" which say it allow for Raid setting. However when I turn it on. Notebook does not boot and say that there is no bootable drive. When I turn it back off - it will boot back up normally. Please can anyone advice me how to proceed in order to make Raid 1? Im not IT specialist, but I think I can pull this of. Thanks in advance.

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