Re: Mirrored Drive Windows SBS 2003 Standard

The second/mirror disc must be blank/unformated/unpartitioned/out of the
box. Make the first druve dynamic, then the wizards will fall in place

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"Doug" <Doug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thank you, I just saw that in another article, I have the drive
partitioned
already. Am I only going to be able to mirror the primary partition or can
I
mirror the entire drive? Would I be better off reinstalling Windows and
undoing the partitions?

"Cris Hanna (SBS-MVP)" wrote:

Is your primary drive set up as a dynamic drive?

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"Doug" <Doug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have a question about setting a mirrored drive in Windows SBS 2003
Standard. I recently built a server using an MSI K8D Master3-FA4R Dual
Socket
940 AMD 8131 SSI EEB 3.0 Mother board with 2 GB of RAM, Dual AMD
Opteron 248
Sledgehammer Processors, and two 250gb SATA2 Hardrives. The SATA RAID
drive
is Silicon Image SiI 3114 PCI. Here is a link to the Motherboard
Manufacturer
website,

http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=K8D_Master3-FA4R&class=spd

My problem is I can't figure out how set up a mirrored drive. I
followed the
directions in the Help and Support, by going to Disk Management and
right
clicking on the empty drive, according to the help file should have an
option there for setting up the RAID but I don't. I am used to working
in
Linux. Everything else is working great and really like the O.S.
Exchange was
so easy to setup as was everything else including the tape back up
schedule,
but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to mirror a drive.
Please any
help would be greatly appreciated


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