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  • December 10, 2002 at 5:41 am #2311533

    Mirrored drives on PC w/ 2000 Pro

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    by gmax95 · about 20 years, 6 months ago

    I have a simple question (hopefully not too simplistic): I’ve got 2000 Pro on my PC and just purchased a 2nd HD. I want to mirror my 2 HD’s:

    Is this possible using Win2KPro? Thanks.

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    • December 10, 2002 at 6:40 am #3471272

      Mirrored drives on PC w/ 2000 Pro

      by timwalsh · about 20 years, 6 months ago

      In reply to Mirrored drives on PC w/ 2000 Pro

      The simple answer is yes. However, this requires more explanation.

      You have 2 choices for creating mirrored disks: the hardware route and the software route.

      The hardware route requires you to purchase a RAID controller that will work will your hard drive interface (i.e. IDE or SCSI). Assuming the appropriate drivers are available, this solution would work regardless of your OS.

      The software route uses tools that are built into the OS. There are a couple of caveats to the software route.
      1. The disks to be mirrored must be converted from basic to dynamic disks. This is accomplished using the Disk Management tool.
      2. You can only mirror partitions, not entire disks (unless the entire disk is one partition).

      Hope this helps.

    • December 11, 2002 at 11:58 am #3471790

      Mirrored drives on PC w/ 2000 Pro

      by likertj · about 20 years, 6 months ago

      In reply to Mirrored drives on PC w/ 2000 Pro

      Any type of RAID (i.e. Mirroring) is fault tolerant. The only want to do this on Win2K Pro or WinXPPro is to use a hardware card. Promise makes these cards for IDE storage devices. Windows 2000 Pro does not support any type of fault tolerant RAIDarchitectures. Volume Sets, Folders Mounted as volumes, and Stripe sets are supported through software. (not fault tolerant)

    • December 12, 2002 at 8:43 am #3469201

      Mirrored drives on PC w/ 2000 Pro

      by cul8rm8e · about 20 years, 6 months ago

      In reply to Mirrored drives on PC w/ 2000 Pro

      CONFUSED?
      Windows 2000 Professional doesn’t support Mirrored and RAID-5 volumes, where as other Windows 2000 Server Operating Systems (2000 Server, Advanced Server) do support these fault tollerance features.

    • March 10, 2003 at 2:47 pm #3396114

      Mirrored drives on PC w/ 2000 Pro

      by gmax95 · about 20 years, 3 months ago

      In reply to Mirrored drives on PC w/ 2000 Pro

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