Swapping drive(s) in Windows 2003 Server using Dynamic disk and mirroring

October 22, 2007

I'm planning a disk swap for a production web server. My plan is to

replace an existing 300 GB IDE (single) drive with 2x320 GB SATA-300

drives and my plan is to install one of the two SATA drives, convert

both the existing drive and the first new drive to Dynamic Disks.

Once complete I wish to shut down the server, remove the old 300 GB

IDE drive, install the second new SATA drive, boot the server and

create a dynamic disk mirror - leaving me with newer, faster mirrored

drives. I have read in some places that this will work perfectly and

in others, that my first mirrored drive (the first 320 GB SATA drive)

will be assigned the wrong drive letter and that my applications etc.

that will be looking for things in C:\ will fail because they will all

be in D:\. Can someone verify that this will either work, work with

some basic massaging, or will never fly.

Thanks!

October 22, 2007

Re: Swapping drive(s) in Windows 2003 Server using Dynamic disk and mirroring

On Oct 22, 3:33 pm, olsnet <bob.sow...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm planning a disk swap for a production web server. My plan is to

> replace an existing 300 GB IDE (single) drive with 2x320 GB SATA-300

> drives and my plan is to install one of the two SATA drives, convert

> both the existing drive and the first new drive to Dynamic Disks.

> Once complete I wish to shut down the server, remove the old 300 GB

> IDE drive, install the second new SATA drive, boot the server and

> create a dynamic disk mirror - leaving me with newer, faster mirrored

> drives. I have read in some places that this will work perfectly and

> in others, that my first mirrored drive (the first 320 GB SATA drive)

> will be assigned the wrong drive letter and that my applications etc.

> that will be looking for things in C:\ will fail because they will all

> be in D:\. Can someone verify that this will either work, work with

> some basic massaging, or will never fly.

>

> Thanks!

I should correctly state that I plan to convert both the existing

drive and the

irst new drive to Dynamic Disks - and mirror them.

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