Re: Using two hard drives, one as a duplicate
From: Phil Hoggins (Phil_Hoggins_at_NOSPAMyahoo.co.uk)
Date: 09/10/04
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Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 09:02:42 +0100
It's called RAID, quite a lot of MBO support it.
Elden wrote:
> I ordered my first computer with two hard drives, intending to use the D:/
> drive as a backup for the C:/ drive. The salesman said it couldn't be done. I
> knew nothing about computers and less about DOS. I think it came with 3.3.
> Soon, without knowing what I was doing, I had the drives working as I had
> intended. Both had identical information. This worked through DOS 4.0, 5.0,
> 6.0, and then into Windows 3.1, 3.11, and 98SE. It saved me twice when the
> C:/ drive quit.
> I have no idea what I did to get them working together like that, it's
> been many years and I didn't know what I was doing. But it worked.
> Now I have XP Pro, two new drives, and I can not figure out how to get
> the D:/ drive to mirror the C:/ drive, all by itself, so if the C:/ drive
> quits I have an up to date drive still running and with all my data intact.
> Can anyone help me with my problem?
> Elden
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