How to setup (copy) the Data to Raid 1 Harddisk

[hon123456]

Dear All,
Sorry to post again, but my Subject is wrong, thus I need to
post again.
I am now using one ide disk with operating system. I wish to
use RAid 1. I bought a Ultra ATA 133 Raid Controller Card(IDE). I wish to
use two 80G hard disk. AS I know , Raid 1 mirror disks. But for the
starting, how can I make the content of my old ide hard disk to the raid
disk, I mean how to setup the Raid 1 Hard disk that contains my current
operating system and application. (How to let the same data be mirrored in
both 2 hard disk of Raid 1 for starting.). Should I ghost the data from old
ide disk to both 2 Hard disk of Raid 1 one by one. Or there exist any other
method to make the raid 1 disk contains my old operating system and
application (copy? or ghost?)(i.e. the old data should be mirrored to 2
disks of Raid 1)
the 2 disks of Raid 1)
the Raid 1 contains my old operating system

 

[Wayne Stallwood]

Dear All,
Sorry to post again, but my Subject is wrong, thus I need to
post again.
I am now using one ide disk with operating system. I wish to
use RAid 1. I bought a Ultra ATA 133 Raid Controller Card(IDE). I wish
to use two 80G hard disk. AS I know , Raid 1 mirror disks. But for the
starting, how can I make the content of my old ide hard disk to the raid
disk, I mean how to setup the Raid 1 Hard disk that contains my current
operating system and application. (How to let the same data be mirrored
in both 2 hard disk of Raid 1 for starting.). Should I ghost the data from
old
ide disk to both 2 Hard disk of Raid 1 one by one. Or there exist any
other method to make the raid 1 disk contains my old operating system and
application (copy? or ghost?)(i.e. the old data should be mirrored to 2
disks of Raid 1)
the 2 disks of Raid 1)
the Raid 1 contains my old operating system

Most raid controllers I have seen have a function within their initial setup
screen (you should be able to get to this before the OS tries to boot) to
build a Raid 1 array from one of the disks.

So Ghost the data from your old drive to the first drive in your array, then
use this feature to build the array from that disk.

However depending on what Operating system you are running, you may find
that you have to boot from a rescue disk or perform a repair installation
in order to get it to boot. Windows (and to a reasonable extent Linux)
doesn't like having it's boot device moved to a different controller
sometimes.

If you are running Windows, I'd say that booting once with the controller
card in place so that you can at least get the drivers loaded onto the
system may not be a bad idea.