Re: Rebuild RAID 1 with bigger HDD

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I agree about restoring backups vs. copying, but I think you are being a bit harsh w.r.t. partitioning software. First of all, it's very unusual to have a problem and you can usually resolve it be a call to tech support. Secondly, the person who had to re-install deserves what happened. When using software like Partition Magic, the first step is to *ALWAYS*, *ALWAYS*, *ALWAYS* (did I mention *ALWAYS*?) backup the drive. They obviously did not do this and, as I said, deserve whatever happened to them.... :-(

Regards,
Hank Arnold

mtstream wrote:
Personally I prefer to restore from backup - I can walk away and don't have to see if/when a copy hiccuped. NOTE: I have very fast tape drives.

I wouldn't touch partitioning software.
Actual conversation:
"Whatcha doing"
"Resizeing my disk with PartiionMagic"
"Whatcha doing"
"Reinstalling Windows, my applications and trying to figure out what I lost" :-)


"Dennis P. Nikolaenko" wrote:

Pegasus (MVP) wrote:

6. Use xcopy.exe or robocopy.exe to copy the
old disk to the new disk. Make sure to include
permissions, attributes and hidden files.
I would copy the the whole partition instead, and then resized it to occupy the whole disk with some partition managing tool like Acronis Disk Director or Partition Magic, or the one from Paragon. I recommend the one from Acronis.
--
Dennis


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