Windows 2000 change drives to raid2

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Hi,
I have a install of windows 2000 running on a machine with a single
harddrive.Im thinking of upgrading the harddrive to 2 x 500gig drive and set
up a raid 2.Questions how can I save all info and the os i.e how to copy to
the raid drives if possible.

Also can anyone point me to any info that you may feel I need to read to get
this to work with out to much hassle.

Chris
 
Which RAID level are you wanting to use? RAID-0? RAID-1? Is this a
software RAID or a hardware RAID? Is your present hard drive causing
you problems? Is it failing? Other that to setup a RAID-1 for
system/boot drive redundancy I wouldn't bother with having the operating
system on RAID, and even at that I wouldn't bother with redundancy and
RAID-1 unless this was a mission critical machine.

John

Joker7 wrote:

> Hi,
> I have a install of windows 2000 running on a machine with a single
> harddrive.Im thinking of upgrading the harddrive to 2 x 500gig drive and set
> up a raid 2.Questions how can I save all info and the os i.e how to copy to
> the raid drives if possible.
>
> Also can anyone point me to any info that you may feel I need to read to get
> this to work with out to much hassle.
>
> Chris
>
>
>
 
To restore balance to the world John John (MVP) wrote in
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>> Which RAID level are you wanting to use? RAID-0? RAID-1? Is this a
>> software RAID or a hardware RAID? Is your present hard drive causing
>> you problems? Is it failing? Other that to setup a RAID-1 for
>> system/boot drive redundancy I wouldn't bother with having the
>> operating system on RAID, and even at that I wouldn't bother with
>> redundancy and RAID-1 unless this was a mission critical machine.
>>
>> John
>>
>> Joker7 wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I have a install of windows 2000 running on a machine with a single
>>> harddrive.Im thinking of upgrading the harddrive to 2 x 500gig
>>> drive and set up a raid 2.Questions how can I save all info and the
>>> os i.e how to copy to the raid drives if possible.
>>>
>>> Also can anyone point me to any info that you may feel I need to
>>> read to get this to work with out to much hassle.
>>>
>>> Chris

It will be raid 1 so have identical copies of data- I store a very large
music collection on the machine,which is it's main use.Has I have to replace
the drive,I started to think of a easy way to mirrow the data.

Question: can I have the OS on a serperat drive but still have the music
stored on a raid 1?

Chris

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Joker7 wrote:

> Hi,
> I have a install of windows 2000 running on a machine with a single
> harddrive.Im thinking of upgrading the harddrive to 2 x 500gig drive and set
> up a raid 2.Questions how can I save all info and the os i.e how to copy to
> the raid drives if possible.
>
> Also can anyone point me to any info that you may feel I need to read to get
> this to work with out to much hassle.

John wrote:

> Which RAID level are you wanting to use? RAID-0? RAID-1? Is this a
> software RAID or a hardware RAID? Is your present hard drive causing
> you problems? Is it failing? Other that to setup a RAID-1 for
> system/boot drive redundancy I wouldn't bother with having the
> operating system on RAID, and even at that I wouldn't bother with
> redundancy and RAID-1 unless this was a mission critical machine.

Joker7 wrote:

> It will be raid 1 so have identical copies of data- I store a very large
> music collection on the machine,which is it's main use.Has I have to replace
> the drive,I started to think of a easy way to mirrow the data.

You can get a drive cloning application from the hard drive manufacturer
to copy your old drive to the new one, or you can use one of the many
commercial applications to do this.


> Question: can I have the OS on a serperat drive but still have the music
> stored on a raid 1?

Yes, you can have the operating system on a single independent drive and
have the data on a RAID-1 array, as long as your hardware is suitable
there is nothing preventing you from doing this. However, while RAID-1
is a perfect redundancy solution in server environments, as a data
backup solution it is a very poor or a quasi solution at best. It would
only be helpful if one drive suffered mechanical failure, for anything
else it wont offer much peace of mind. What happens if you delete files
when you're half asleep and then empty your Recycle Bin? What happens
if malware erases some of your files? They will be erased or deleted on
the mirror, that is what will happen.

If data protection and data backup is what you have in mind in my
opinion you are much better off mounting the disk as single data disk or
use it in a USB enclosure for your backups.

John
 
To restore balance to the world John John (MVP) wrote in
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Big Snip
>>
>> If data protection and data backup is what you have in mind in my
>> opinion you are much better off mounting the disk as single data
>> disk or use it in a USB enclosure for your backups.
>>
>> John

Any recommendations on the above I.e. software ect don't like the idea of
USB one more thing to knock over.

Chris
 
"Joker7" <sat_ring@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> To restore balance to the world John John (MVP) wrote in
> %23N1XdX$yIHA.3972@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl
> Big Snip
> >>
> >> If data protection and data backup is what you have in mind in my
> >> opinion you are much better off mounting the disk as single data
> >> disk or use it in a USB enclosure for your backups.
> >>
> >> John
>
> Any recommendations on the above I.e. software ect don't like the idea of
> USB one more thing to knock over.
>
> Chris
>
>


If you attempt to clone a single drive to a RAID the system will probably
not boot
as a RAID boot loader references a disk signature. By booting to the repair
console and issuing the command fixboot
you *might* be able to get the system going.

I really would not go with RAID as it will offer no protection against data
corruption.
Simply back up your data to an other drive or media on a regular basis.
 
Joker7 wrote:

> To restore balance to the world John John (MVP) wrote in
> %23N1XdX$yIHA.3972@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl
> Big Snip
>
>>>If data protection and data backup is what you have in mind in my
>>>opinion you are much better off mounting the disk as single data
>>>disk or use it in a USB enclosure for your backups.
>>>
>>>John
>
>
> Any recommendations on the above I.e. software ect don't like the idea of
> USB one more thing to knock over.

Acronis True Image is a good product.

John
 
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