Mirroring Main Drive

[Neil Grantham]

I have a new server with 2 HDD's.

I would like to mirror (Raid?) the C drive to the second drive.

In Disk Management I have the following showing:

Left Column:
Disk 0 Dynamic 76.33
Disk 1 Dynamic 74.53

Right Column:
C is shown as a 'Simple Volume' 76.32 Gb and there is 8Mb Unallocated
the other drive is shown as 74.53 unallocated

If I right click on Disk 0, and try to Create Volume, if I use Disk 0
and 1 it only shows 8Mb as available

Am I doing something wrong? Perhaps I need C to be not 'simple' How do
I do that?

Any help appreciated on the best way to have 'D' drive (Disk 1) to be
a mirror of C (Disk 0)
If it means starting over, thats OK

Regards
Neil

 

[Bjorn Landemoo]

Neil

You will need free unallocated space that is at least as large as the
volume you are trying to mirror. Your volume C is 76.32 GB, and disk1 is
only 74.53 GB, so this one will not be large enough.

This MS Knowledge Base article is a step by step guide how to set up a
software mirror (RAID1):

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=302969

If you, when you install your operating system, select to create a volume
that is less than what your second disk is, you will be able to mirror it.

Best regards

Bjorn

 

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