Mirror 2 local hard drives

[Brett]

I have 2 hard drives on my computer and whatever I do to the C drive, I want
applied to the D drive as well. There must be a way to locally mirror two
hard drives in Windows XP Pro. Anyone know any?

Thanks

 

[Michael A. McKenney]

RAID controller is the only method. RAID 1 and 5 are only software
supported on servers.

 

[Pete Baker]

Hi Brett

Yes there is a way, although it doesn't really have anything to do with XP.

What you are looking for is a RAID 1 array - direct mirroring of one drive
onto another. If you don't have a RAID controller on your current mainboard
your best bet would be to purchase a PCI card RAID controller capable of
doing the job. The RAID controller operates at a hardware level, below that
which XP will see - as far as XP is concerned it will be a single drive.

Keep in mind, though, that both drives will function best in such an array
if they are identical. I think I right in saying that a RAID 1 array will
only provide you with the capacity of the smaller of the 2 drives.

Hope that helps
Pete

 

[Alvin A Brown]

Hello

How are your drives currently setup as master and slave and is
so you would have to create a Raid comfiguration. Also does your
brd support that, these are things one has to find out ok. Provide
that info

Alvin

 

[Brett]

No I don't have RAID capable hardware. They are just ordinary drives set up
for Master/Slave. I was planning on getting RAID in my next system, but for
now I thought there was a setting or something in Xp that when it saved one
file to a disk, it would save the same to the other. But I guess not. Thanks
for the tips guys.