Raid 1 question

[ldulitz]

Quick raid question... Ive done this before on servers, but first shot at my home pc. I have a Shuttle SB83G5 with onboard SATA RAID. Currently i have one drive in there which is runnign XP, but i want to mirror it. I have an exact same drive for the new mirror.
To get the mirror setup, will i need to create the array and to reinstall windows, or can i connect the new drive, and have it start replicating the data over in the prewindows RAID setup and boot to windows normally afterwards?

 

[wseyller]

you should be able to create the array without reinstalling windows, but I only had experience with one type of raid controller.

 

[Vegito]

some drive will nuke the array

ghost image before raid to another drive

install drive & array

if it works, ur in the clear, if not, u can restore the image.

ghost does get corrupted, do not ghost to CD /DVD and if you have large drive, make 2 dumps


huh huh i said dump