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installation. Windows simply prompts you to partition and then format the

drive. Read the screens and you’ll do great.

Storage Spaces

With Windows 8 and later versions of the OS, you can group one or more

physical drives of any size into a single storage pool. These drives can be

internal HDD or SSD or external storage connected via USB. It’s pretty

sweet. Storage Spaces functions like a RAID management tool, except it goes

well beyond the typical tool. Here’s the scoop.

First off, to run the tool, get to the Start screen and type storage spaces.

Storage Spaces will show up in the Search. Click on it to run the program.

The opening screen gives you pretty much a single option, to Create a new

pool and storage space (see Figure 9-51). Click that option.

Figure 9-51 Storage Spaces opening window (Windows 8.1)

Storage Spaces will show you the available installed and formatted

physical drives and give you a warning that proceeding will erase the drives

(see Figure 9-52). Select the drives you want to include in the pool and click

the Create pool button.

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