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Disk Mirroring on W2K Pro

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by shanghai sam 1 view

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I need to figure out a Fault tolerant solution for my workstations. They each have two hard drives and ideally if one drive fails the second could be booted. They must both be online to facilate data backup...sounds like Disk mirroring?..except you can't do that on Pro. Is there a low cost third party solution? I have tried "ghosting" the second drive..ran the configuration and then after shutting down..removed the master drive to simulate failure and created a boot disk to point to the second drive. Either it loops around the login or if I can get it to boot properly it now thinks it is drive "D"..important to remain "C" using Dell optiplex workstations.

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by maxwell edison

I do this very thing on a few of my desktops. There are two hard drives, the D-Drive being an exact image of C-Drive. If the C-Drive fails, the D-drive can be set as the first boot device in the BIOS, and we're back in business that fast.

The software I use is Drive Image by PowerQuest. It works very well, and is easy for the users to run.

Good luck,

Maxwell

by ptchtech

Why don't you just use group policy to redirect all data to a server that HAS fault tolerance. If a workstation fails you can ghost the OS and assorted apps onto a new drive for the workstation
in a few Minutes. The user won't be able to tell the difference. Your backup will be simplified as well !!

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