Re: RAID, partitioning and imaging

If you use partitioning software on your current system it will see a single
drive.
Any partition created will be mirrored / identical in your second raid drive

Why Did the Dell tech say no, probably either he had no idea or was being
ultra cautious.
If however you have a Dell recovery cd's or hidden partition any recovery to
factory supplied condition will allmost certainly put it back to the single
partition.
I've amended partitions on a mirrored system on numerous occassions with no
problems.

"Bob S" <xxxx@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"DL" <address@invalid> wrote:

Sure you can, but if you are imaging why not image the entire drive?
You are aware that raid 1 is a mirror?, and as such you should be able to
disconnect one drive and the PC will still function correctly.
Not that raid mirror is an alternative to backup

I have over 150 G of word processing documents. I believe
that would mean a pretty large image, even allowing for
compression.

My purpose in imaging is simply to be able to go back if,
say, I install a program which changes things for the worse,
in a way so that I can't otherwise fix it. As I've been
given to understand, such a change would work across the
mirror, and so the problem would exist on both drives, so
notwithstanding the RAID configuration I'd need a backup
image to turn back the clock.

As for the data, it's constantly changing and being backed
up on a portable hard drive, which I carry back and forth
between home and the office, because most of the documents
are for work, with the result that my home and office files
serve as backups for each other. It therefore doesn't seem
to me to be worth it to continually image everything, when
the data is backed up elsewhere.

I readily admit that I have no technical competence, so if
I'm thinking about this the wrong way, I'd certainly
appreciate being set straight.

Going back to the RAID thing: so if I partition my C drive,
will that cause the 2d drive in the RAID configuration also
to be partitioned, given the fact that it works as a mirror?

Also, why would one of the Dell tech guys tell me not to try
it? Do you know whether there's a theoretical concern
lurking somewhere? I recognize the alternative that he
simply could be mis-informed.

Thanks.
--

Bob S.


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