RE: Replacing a mirrored drive
- From: v-robeli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Robert Li [MSFT])
- Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 07:18:03 GMT
Hi Jim,
Thanks for posting in our newsgroup and also for Keith's input.
I agree with Keith's suggestion.
I'd like to gave you more information:.
Best practices for using dynamic disks on Windows Server 2003-based
computers
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816307
How To Mirror the System and Boot Partition (RAID1) in Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/302969/en-us
How to mirror the system and boot partition (RAID1) in Windows Server 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/323432/en-us
Hope this helps!
If you need further assistance, please don't hesitate to let me know.
Best regards,
Robert Li(MSFT)
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<you should have no problem, just make sure to break the mirror and
<de-allocate the drives from the existing array before adding the new
units.
<alternatively just reset the raid bios (assuming you are using h/w raid)
to
<defaults, add the new disks and create your arrays as required.
<
<"JimA" wrote:
<
<> I will replacing an existing mirrored drive set with 2 larger drives in
the
<> near future and have a question. I will probably be putting the old
drives
<> back into the server after the mirroring is completed so I will have a)
the
<> new mirrored set and b) the old mirrored set in the same server (they
may not
<> be a mirrored set).
<>
<> My concern is will I just be able to initialize and format the old
drives
<> for reuse?
<>
<> Or is there any potential for contention or other issues?
<>
<> Thanks
<> --
<> Jim A.
<
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