I'm currently running 1 120Gb Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 SATA hard disk on an Abit NF7-S. If i bought another identical hard disk, could i set up a RAID 1 array without losing the data on the first disk? How would i go about doing this?
Thanks,
Merlin
I'm currently running 1 120Gb Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 SATA hard disk on an Abit NF7-S. If i bought another identical hard disk, could i set up a RAID 1 array without losing the data on the first disk? How would i go about doing this?
Thanks,
Merlin
For joy, apparently, it was all Franny could do to hold the phone, even with both hands.
Ok, following along for interest, could you do this, if you could borrow a third clean 120gig disk to backup the hard disk data? By this I mean the entire filesystem, not just copy over all the files you want then reinstall windows. I could imagine this would be difficult to do, as something like norton ghost would have problems (ive not used it, just seemed a sensible conclusion).
It wouldnt work i am afraid - because when you restore the backup from the temporary 120 gig HDD onto the new raid 1 array - windows would bluse screen on bootup because the last time it was booted it booted of a single HDD on the mobo IDE controller (which it has built in drivers for) and now your trying to boot it of a raid card wichit does not have drivers for, hence it gets totally confused and commits virtual suicide.
Its a reinstall - or bust mate, i am afraid.
Butuz
That's not entirely true - with dynamic disks you can mirror your first drive so long as you convert it to dynamic first (and then add a mirror) - note RAID-1 is mirroring NOT striping (RAID-0).Originally Posted by Butuz
See the following explanation:
Setting up RAID-1 in windows
what about file and settings xfer wizard? never tried it so don't know how good/reliable it is though... you would still need that extra storage space but might be able to get away with a usb pendrive if you don't have much stuff on the hd. can you still get those free 200mb storage upload sites on the net?
Nox
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