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I have a Dell 2950 with hot swap drives. I have 2 physical disks with RAID 1 configuration and have installed the OS and exchange 2007 on this virtual disk. I want to test if, let's say I shutdown the server and pull out the 2 physical disks and then replace them with another 2 physical disks and then power up the server again. So of course there will be no data on the new disks so let's say I install the OS and exchange again, but for some reason I want the old disks back. Can I just shutdown the server again, pull out the new disks and then replace them again with the old disks, then power up the server, will I get the exact old system back or will the server wipe the old disks?
Is this confusing? Hope it's not!

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by tintoman

you would want to do this but of course in the circumstances you describe your server will boot up normally, I'm not really sure what makes you think the disks will get "wiped" but I can't think of any reason why they would

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