Install Win2k on a mirrored partition

The answer to the basic question, can you mirror the system and boot partition on a Win2K server, is "yes." To create a mirror for any disk or partition on Win2K, the disk has to be running as a dynamic disk, not a basic disk. I believe by defaultwhen you first install Win2K, the disk is created as a basic disk and you have to convert it to dynamic. You can do this from the disk management console by right clicking on the grey area of the graphic disk display where you see the "Disk 0" and "Basic" and the size of the disk. Then select "upgrade to dynamic disk" from the menu. Once this is done, you'll be able to mirror it with another drive/partition in your server. I'm a little confused about the last part of your message - you can'tmirror a drive in one computer to a drive in a different computer - the drives all have to be installed in the same computer (and should be the same size) in order to create a mirror. Hope this helps!

Yes I had upgraded the basis disk to dynamic disk but the problem is that my C drive where Win2k is install is Simple volume. Is it possible to create a Mirrored volume instead? I do have unallocated space on other disk, however the are no options to create Mirrored volume for the C drive.
Pls help me thanks :)

Ok, it sounds like you're on the right track. The other volume (the one you're mirroring to) has to also be a dynamic volume, and the unallocated space has to be greater than or at least equal to the amount of space on the first volume. The unallocated space also has to be clean and unformatted. Then, you should be able to right click on the C: volume and see the Create Mirror option. Hope this helps!

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