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Windows 2000 Drive Mirroring

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by cat219

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I have a currently running 2000 Server drive which is a basic drive in a domain environment. I have installed another drive to act as a mirror. I have already set that one as dynamic, but I now need to switch the primary drive to a dynamic also. Before I make a change like this to an established network, I would like to know if anyone sees a danger in doing this. Bottom line is that with a tight budget, I need this as a cheap way to have a quick backup in case of drive failure. If it were up tome, I wouldn't be so cheap when it comes to this sort of thing, but hey....this is what I have to work with. Your thoughts are appreciated.

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by widgey woo

Before you convert your existing Drive to a dynamic volume, back it up first. Once you convert a basic disc to a dynamic volume you cannot convert it back to a basic disk without first removing all the volumes on the Drive and reformatting it any existing partitions will become simple volumes on the new Dynamic Disk. I forsee no problems for you to convert the Primary Disk and then create a mirror of that disk to the second disk for Fault tolerance.

hope this helps

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