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Mirror drives in Win2000 Server

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by mja 1 view

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Can anyone tell me how you mirror drives in Win2000? I am curious if you need a special controller for the hard drives. I have a client that wants to set up a server with dual 80G hard drives and wants to mirror them. If you point me in the right direction... Thanks!!

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by timwalsh

You need no extra hardware (other than the additional drive obviously). The difference with Win2K (over doing the same thing in NT), is that in addition to both drives being formatted as NTFS (the only requirement for NT4), both drives must also beconverted to Dynamic Disks.

Once the drives have been converted to Dynamic Disks, the option to mirror partitions (you will actually be mirroring partitions, not the entire drive) is enabled. This is all accomplished through the Disk Management tool.

You can also buy RAID controllers for both SCSI and IDE drives that give you the option of mirroring the entire drive.

Hope this answers your question.

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