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Old July 16th 07, 01:52 AM posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Timothy Drouillard[_3_]
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Default RAID1 on SATA drives

If all you want to do is move to a new larger hard drive, all you need is
something like Acronis TrueImage.

It'll allow you to clone your original HD to the larger one, resizing the
partitions as part of the process.


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"Paul" wrote in message ...
Bob Knowlden wrote:
I've never done it, but I have read that it is possible to use
different-sized disks to make an array. The result, however, will be the
same size as if all of the drives were the same as the SMALLEST one.

It might be more satisfactory to spend some more cash on a twin to your
new drive.


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To give an example, if you tried RAID1, using a 40GB and a 320GB drive,
the resulting mirrored array has a capacity of 40GB, and 280GB on the
second drive is inaccessible. Given the low price of drives, buying two
new ones ro make a RAID1, makes more sense.

Paul

Thanks, This might work if I can remove the smaller drive later and use it
as a recovered drive.
My main problem is that I can not copy all of drive A: (the smaller, older
drive) to the newer drive. (it's larger) Windows crashs while copying it
and so does the Seagate utility that came with the drive.
I was hoping the Raid function might work around it by copying everything
to the new drive as a back up and then installing the new drive in place
of the older drive.

Think it will work?
S