Question regarding raid array...

[krevo]

A good friend of mine runs a business based off an old Server 2000 box. Two 80gb SATA in raid 1, and apparenty one of the two drives is dead and the array is flagged critical.



Instead of replacing another 80, he wants to swap the 80's for 250, rebuild the array, and start that way.



First, are 250gb drives even supported in Windows 2000 Server? Can it see them all?

Secondly, are there any utitilites that make server hard drive migration any easier? He's got like 6 sata ports onboard.

 

[V00D00]

I'm not sure if it's possible, but Ghost might be able to help you. That would minimize downtime if it is possible. With ghost you should be able to power down the server, boot into ghost, copy the 80gb drive to an image, and then put in the dual 250's, and restore the ghost.

The only problem I can think of is that I'm not sure if ghost works with RAID. RAID 1 is just mirroring if I'm not mistaken, so I would assume that doesn't complicate it nearly as much as if it were RAID 0, 0+1, or 5.

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If I'm not mistaken, I thought you could just take the dead 80 gig out, put in one of the new 250's, rebuild the array, and then take out the other 80 and rebuild. I've never personally worked with RAID, but I thought this was possible.

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: V00D00

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If I'm not mistaken, I thought you could just take the dead 80 gig out, put in one of the new 250's, rebuild the array, and then take out the other 80 and rebuild. I've never personally worked with RAID, but I thought this was possible.

And then you'd have an 80Gb array on 250Gb drives.

You need to Ghost from one drive to another, expanding the destination partition as you go, and then set up the RAID-1 array on the 250Gb drives, which won't wipe your data.