Re: Drive imaging help...

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Andrew
I can recommend BootitNG
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cheers
Roberto

"AMeador" <ameador1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> 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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