change drives to raid2

[Guest Joker7]

Hi,

I have a install of windows 2000 running on a machine with a single

harddrive.Im thinking of upgrading the harddrive to 2 x 500gig drive and set

up a raid 2.Questions how can I save all info and the os i.e how to copy to

the raid drives if possible.

 

Also can anyone point me to any info that you may feel I need to read to get

this to work with out to much hassle.

 

Chris

[Guest John John (MVP)]

Re: change drives to raid2

 

Which RAID level are you wanting to use? RAID-0? RAID-1? Is this a

software RAID or a hardware RAID? Is your present hard drive causing

you problems? Is it failing? Other that to setup a RAID-1 for

system/boot drive redundancy I wouldn't bother with having the operating

system on RAID, and even at that I wouldn't bother with redundancy and

RAID-1 unless this was a mission critical machine.

 

John

 

Joker7 wrote:

> Hi,

> I have a install of windows 2000 running on a machine with a single

> harddrive.Im thinking of upgrading the harddrive to 2 x 500gig drive and set

> up a raid 2.Questions how can I save all info and the os i.e how to copy to

> the raid drives if possible.

>

> Also can anyone point me to any info that you may feel I need to read to get

> this to work with out to much hassle.

>

> Chris

>

>

>

[Guest Joker7]

Re: change drives to raid2

 

To restore balance to the world John John (MVP) wrote in

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>> Which RAID level are you wanting to use? RAID-0? RAID-1? Is this a

>> software RAID or a hardware RAID? Is your present hard drive causing

>> you problems? Is it failing? Other that to setup a RAID-1 for

>> system/boot drive redundancy I wouldn't bother with having the

>> operating system on RAID, and even at that I wouldn't bother with

>> redundancy and RAID-1 unless this was a mission critical machine.

>>

>> John

>>

>> Joker7 wrote:

>>

>>> Hi,

>>> I have a install of windows 2000 running on a machine with a single

>>> harddrive.Im thinking of upgrading the harddrive to 2 x 500gig

>>> drive and set up a raid 2.Questions how can I save all info and the

>>> os i.e how to copy to the raid drives if possible.

>>>

>>> Also can anyone point me to any info that you may feel I need to

>>> read to get this to work with out to much hassle.

>>>

>>> Chris

 

It will be raid 1 so have identical copies of data- I store a very large

music collection on the machine,which is it's main use.Has I have to replace

the drive,I started to think of a easy way to mirrow the data.

 

Question: can I have the OS on a serperat drive but still have the music

stored on a raid 1?

 

Chris

 

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[Guest John John (MVP)]

Re: change drives to raid2

 

Joker7 wrote:

> Hi,

> I have a install of windows 2000 running on a machine with a single

> harddrive.Im thinking of upgrading the harddrive to 2 x 500gig drive and set

> up a raid 2.Questions how can I save all info and the os i.e how to copy to

> the raid drives if possible.

>

> Also can anyone point me to any info that you may feel I need to read to get

> this to work with out to much hassle.

 

John wrote:

> Which RAID level are you wanting to use? RAID-0? RAID-1? Is this a

> software RAID or a hardware RAID? Is your present hard drive causing

> you problems? Is it failing? Other that to setup a RAID-1 for

> system/boot drive redundancy I wouldn't bother with having the

> operating system on RAID, and even at that I wouldn't bother with

> redundancy and RAID-1 unless this was a mission critical machine.

 

Joker7 wrote:

> It will be raid 1 so have identical copies of data- I store a very large

> music collection on the machine,which is it's main use.Has I have to replace

> the drive,I started to think of a easy way to mirrow the data.

 

You can get a drive cloning application from the hard drive manufacturer

to copy your old drive to the new one, or you can use one of the many

commercial applications to do this.

 

> Question: can I have the OS on a serperat drive but still have the music

> stored on a raid 1?

 

Yes, you can have the operating system on a single independent drive and

have the data on a RAID-1 array, as long as your hardware is suitable

there is nothing preventing you from doing this. However, while RAID-1

is a perfect redundancy solution in server environments, as a data

backup solution it is a very poor or a quasi solution at best. It would

only be helpful if one drive suffered mechanical failure, for anything

else it wont offer much peace of mind. What happens if you delete files

when you're half asleep and then empty your Recycle Bin? What happens

if malware erases some of your files? They will be erased or deleted on

the mirror, that is what will happen.

 

If data protection and data backup is what you have in mind in my

opinion you are much better off mounting the disk as single data disk or

use it in a USB enclosure for your backups.

 

John

[Guest Joker7]

Re: change drives to raid2

 

To restore balance to the world John John (MVP) wrote in

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>>

>> If data protection and data backup is what you have in mind in my

>> opinion you are much better off mounting the disk as single data

>> disk or use it in a USB enclosure for your backups.

>>

>> John

 

Any recommendations on the above I.e. software ect don't like the idea of

USB one more thing to knock over.

 

Chris

[Guest philo]

Re: change drives to raid2

 

 

"Joker7" <sat_ring@hotmail.com> wrote in message

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> To restore balance to the world John John (MVP) wrote in

> %23N1XdX$yIHA.3972@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl

> Big Snip

> >>

> >> If data protection and data backup is what you have in mind in my

> >> opinion you are much better off mounting the disk as single data

> >> disk or use it in a USB enclosure for your backups.

> >>

> >> John

>

> Any recommendations on the above I.e. software ect don't like the idea of

> USB one more thing to knock over.

>

> Chris

>

>

 

 

If you attempt to clone a single drive to a RAID the system will probably

not boot

as a RAID boot loader references a disk signature. By booting to the repair

console and issuing the command fixboot

you *might* be able to get the system going.

 

I really would not go with RAID as it will offer no protection against data

corruption.

Simply back up your data to an other drive or media on a regular basis.

[Guest John John (MVP)]

Re: change drives to raid2

 

Joker7 wrote:

> To restore balance to the world John John (MVP) wrote in

> %23N1XdX$yIHA.3972@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl

> Big Snip

>

>>>If data protection and data backup is what you have in mind in my

>>>opinion you are much better off mounting the disk as single data

>>>disk or use it in a USB enclosure for your backups.

>>>

>>>John

>

>

> Any recommendations on the above I.e. software ect don't like the idea of

> USB one more thing to knock over.

 

Acronis True Image is a good product.

 

John