Re: Raid 1 repartition
- From: "Phillip Windell" <philwindell@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 16:35:42 -0600
"Ira Shapiro" <IraShapiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks for the details about raid and partitions. I am well aware of
that.
The reason I "mixed" the 2 topics is because the raid utilities have the
feature of being able to reconstruct a mirror (raid 1). My thought was:
Backup the data from D: on external media, then break the mirror, wipe one
drive of the pair clean and create partitions of the size I want. Remove
the
D: drive (data) from the remaining disk. Then rebuild the array onto the
wiped drive with the new partitions. That would effectively expand the
orginal C: partition. Then wipe the other (source) drive and again
rebuild
the mirror. Then load the backup data to it's new sized D partition.
Lots of steps and probably lots of danger. I think I'll use Acronis!
I think it would work. I've done it that way more often than not. I was
always too cheap to buy tools like Acronis, PartitionMagic, etc. Basically
you are just moving the data to a safe place, wiping and rearanging the
drives the way you want, then moving the data back.
Lot of steps yes,...but probably safer than Acronis (IMO anyway), at least
you have a back up of the date throughout the whole process. You might want
to back it up to a safe place first even if you use Acronis.
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Phillip Windell
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The views expressed, are my own and not those of my employer, or Microsoft,
or anyone else associated with me, including my cats.
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