RAID-1 (Mirror set) how to?

[Guest]

I have W2K on a Proliant-DL360 server with one 18Gb physical disk partitioned
as C:\ for System, D:\ for Data and E:\ for Misc data. All is fine. Now I
want to add another disk 18Gb disk to have an exact copy of the first disk
and keep out of the system after the mirroring is done. This is in case of
first disk crashes, install the mirrored disk and boot and have normal
operation. How to get this mirroring/RAID-1 done?

 

[Rick]

I have W2K on a Proliant-DL360 server with one 18Gb physical disk partitioned
as C:\ for System, D:\ for Data and E:\ for Misc data. All is fine. Now I
want to add another disk 18Gb disk to have an exact copy of the first disk
and keep out of the system after the mirroring is done. This is in case of
first disk crashes, install the mirrored disk and boot and have normal
operation. How to get this mirroring/RAID-1 done?

The easiest way is to not create a RAID1 array. They are
problematic for a number of reasons, the most obvious being the
extra steps necessary to create and then break the mirror. And
if one doesn't do these steps exactly correct there's a possibility
of losing the data on both drives.

Simply use Ghost or some other disk image utility to do a disk-
to-disk copy. It accomplishes the exact same thing and is much
less hassle.