cngarcia

Thank you for the illumination. I think I should go for plan 'B'. You are very kind.

Hi, Thanks for your help. First, I my test I am assuming that one and only one disk is failing. Second, when disk 1 fails I am able to replace the disk and rebuild the array I have no problem at all powering-up the system with disk 0. The problems comes when I try to simulate disk 0 failure. I can boot the system from plex 1 but I cannot replace the disk 0. If I replace the "bad" disk 0 and replace it by a blank new disk the system try to boot from this disk, and obviously it has no system yet, so the system won't boot. If I physically switch disk 1 to disk 0 the system boots but with a message saying that my Windows is an illegal copy. Now, you say that I must create a system image. By this, you mean a full system backup or just a boot disk? I try to find a way to create a CD (or DVD) boot disk with no luck. If you mean a full backup then I'm a little bit disappointed with the mirrors because the idea of the mirror is to have the system up and running very quickly. Is there a tutorial explaining the procedure? I saw the in your site there is a tutorials section. Again, thanks for your help. Regards.

Hi, Recently I installed a couple servers in Windows 2008 R2 (no sweat). I also established disk mirroring in both servers (no sweat either). But I began to think about what to do i case of disaster, so I build a test server to simulate disk failures. I found that if disk 1 fails it is very easy to recover (just install a new disk 1 and re-establish the mirror). BUT if this disk 0 is the one that fails it's another story. I have tried different ideas, searched TechNet, searched Internet and I did not find a solution to this theoretical but possible problem. Can anyone give me an step-by-step solution to this problem? Regards, CNGarcia

I'm an IT Manager of small shop and new in Windows Server 2008. Hope to learn more of it. Best regards to all.