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Mirroring in Win2000

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by limiller

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Can I set up a mirror set using disks configured as basic? I already have the first drive partitioned and am leery of trying to change it to dynamic.

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by yahnaman

You should not lose any data when converting to dynamic drives. As always, you should have a good backup before you run any type of disk utility (defrag, chkdsk, etc.)

Anyone that has network access to your machine will be able to get at the data. If you want any other operating system installed on the local machine, it won't read the dynamic drives. Since this is a Server, I wouldn't think you would be booting to NT 4 or 98.

Upgrade to dynamic drives, you will not be sorry.

by limiller

If I convert to dynamic, will I loose the data on the drives? They are now partitioned into a C: and a D:.

by matuarnold

No, you'll not lose the data on the drives. But, Afterwards the data on those drives will only be readable by a Windows 2000 OS though.

by limiller

Does this mean that a Win95/98 client will not be able to access the data on this server?

by johnnord4u

You cannot use the Win 2000 Fault tolerant mirrored volumes without converting to dynamic disk. It is quick and simple (but you may have to use task manager to close open applications so Win2000 can restart). Once the dynamic volumes for your mirrored drives are created it is easy to then use them as mirrored.
1st you must have only 1 partition on the drive. Use the MMC Disk Management snap in, switch to DISK view. Select the drive, right click and select Upgrade to Dynamic Disk. After that you just mirror them.

by johnnord4u

You cannot use the Win 2000 Fault tolerant mirrored volumes without converting to dynamic disk. It is quick and simple (but you may have to use task manager to close open applications so Win2000 can restart). Once the dynamic volumes for your mirrored drives are created it is easy to then use them as mirrored.
1st you must have only 1 partition on the drive. Use the MMC Disk Management snap in, switch to DISK view. Select the drive, right click and select Upgrade to Dynamic Disk. After that you just mirror them.

by johnnord4u

The drives read Only w/Windows2000. You cannot use the Win 2000 Fault tolerant mirrored volumes without converting to dynamic disk, anyway. It is quick and simple (but you may have to use task manager to close open applications so Win2000 can restart). Once the dynamic volumes for your mirrored drives are created it is easy to then use them as mirrored.
1st you must have only 1 partition on the drive. Use the MMC Disk Management snap in, switch to DISK view. Select the drive, right click and select Upgrade to Dynamic Disk. After that you just mirror them.

by limiller

Does this mean that my Win95/98 clients will not be able to access the mirrored drives?

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