Win2K server and RAID

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From: Michael Hyman (MHyman_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 02/15/05 

Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 23:12:56 -0800

I want to reconfigure a RAID 0 to RAID 1 mirroring. The drives are about
160GB ATA, but of the 320GB, only 20GB is in use.

On big servers, this is possible, but I am not sure about Win2K.
Basically the Unix utils will allow you to move the current data to just
one disk, and not striped. Once done, you can break the RAID config and
reconfig to mirroring. The system will then do a background mirroring
operation.

So, can I do this in Win2K Server. The hardware is an ASUS motherboard
with an AMD CPU. The RAID controller is the Promise 20276 ATA133 RAID
controller.

Thanks...Michael

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