Re: Drive imaging help...

BLOW IT AWAY, there are 'unusual things' which occur with most OEM installs
and SBS.

Many of us BEG Dell not to bother, we're going to blow it away despite their
best, but mistaken, intentions anyway.

"AMeador" <ameador1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1137499747.509908.40900@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> I just got a new Dell PowerEdge2800 server with four hard drives in
> a RAID 5 configuration. Dell asked nothing about partition sizes or
> RAID config, they just put all four drives in the RAID (no hot spare).
> I want to change this to three drives in a RAID 5 with the fourth as
> hot spare. I then want to partition this into two partitions.
> My delima is whether to blow their pre-install (along with all
> drivers, utilities, etc...) and completely rebuild, or try to image
> this off to an external USB drive, rebuild the array, then restore the
> image as a smaller partition (and then use Windows for create and
> format the remaining space as the second partition).
> If I use the imaging method, it will probably be a one time use as
> this server is brand new, has planty of storage capacity, and has a
> tape drive. So I really don't want to spend a lot on imaging software.
> I also don't want to spend the next day or two doing a clean rebuild.
> Please give any suggestions. If it is for particular imaging
> software, please give specific version (ex. there is more than one
> version on Norton Ghost 2003 - server, personal, etc...)
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Andrew Meador
>


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