What can I use to do software mirroring???

[rdefino]

I have Windows XP MCE and it doesn't not have software mirroring like XP pro or 2003 server. I need to mirror my c_drive another drive partition. Like doing raid 0 or raid 1. Is there any software packages out therre that can do this?

thanks

 

[Navid]

Originally posted by: rdefino
I have Windows XP MCE and it doesn't not have software mirroring like XP pro or 2003 server. I need to mirror my c_drive another drive partition. Like doing raid 0 or raid 1. Is there any software packages out therre that can do this?

RAID 1 is mirroring. RAID 0 is not. There is a big difference between the two.
Why do you need mirroring?

 

[rdefino]

My mistake. I want to be able to mirror the boot drive, in case the initial drive crashes, I can just boot up on the mirrored drive. I'm using the built in mirror that comes with 2003 server on another system.

Thanks for the reply

 

[spyordie007]

I need to mirror my c_drive another drive partition.

Raid mirrors from one physical drive to another, you cannot mirror from one partition to another.

Anyway XP cannot do software mirroring, only striping (RAID-1). If you want to do this you're going to need a hardware RAID controller (which is by far a superior way to go about it).

There are plenty of cheap PCI IDE/SATA controllers that will give you this capability.

 

[rdefino]

With the built in mirroring in XP pro and 2003 server you can do mirroring from one partition on one drive to another partition on another drive. I'm doing it now. But I want to have to buy a raid controller for the XPmce system. I would like to do it with software. anyone know of any?

 

[spyordie007]

XP doesnt have built-in mirroring (only stripping), you need a controller to do it. Server 2003 is differant, it includes built-in (software) RAID-0, RAID-1 and RAID-5.