Re: Mirroring question

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Best way to do it is only create your OS partition with the necessary disk
space then go into DM and mirror the unallocated drive space.


"Pierrot Robert" <mcthepro_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Is there a way to make the 2 partitions identical first, then mirror them
?

AllenM wrote:
You need a RAID controllor card. You cannot do a hardware RAID
configuration with 2 physical drives using Disk Management. It will
only allow a software mirroring which means you can only mirror 2
identical partitions. Hense the reason why the mirroring option is
greyed out.

"Pierrot Robert" <mcthepro_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Hi,

I added a second ATA hard drive in my ftp server to mirror the
primary disk. In Disk management, the second drive appears as 37.27
GB unallocated but the first one is 37.28 GB NTFS. Both disks are
listed as dynamic. The "add mirror" option is grayed out on the
primary volume. Am I out of luck because of a 0.01 GB difference ? Is
there any MS or
third-party tool to resize the primary volume before mirroring ?

Thank you.

Pierrot




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