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How to setup (copy) the Data to Raid 1 Harddisk
Dear All,
Sorry to post again, but my Subject is wrong, thus I need to post again. I am now using one ide disk with operating system. I wish to use RAid 1. I bought a Ultra ATA 133 Raid Controller Card(IDE). I wish to use two 80G hard disk. AS I know , Raid 1 mirror disks. But for the starting, how can I make the content of my old ide hard disk to the raid disk, I mean how to setup the Raid 1 Hard disk that contains my current operating system and application. (How to let the same data be mirrored in both 2 hard disk of Raid 1 for starting.). Should I ghost the data from old ide disk to both 2 Hard disk of Raid 1 one by one. Or there exist any other method to make the raid 1 disk contains my old operating system and application (copy? or ghost?)(i.e. the old data should be mirrored to 2 disks of Raid 1) the 2 disks of Raid 1) the Raid 1 contains my old operating system |
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hon123456 wrote:
Dear All, Sorry to post again, but my Subject is wrong, thus I need to post again. I am now using one ide disk with operating system. I wish to use RAid 1. I bought a Ultra ATA 133 Raid Controller Card(IDE). I wish to use two 80G hard disk. AS I know , Raid 1 mirror disks. But for the starting, how can I make the content of my old ide hard disk to the raid disk, I mean how to setup the Raid 1 Hard disk that contains my current operating system and application. (How to let the same data be mirrored in both 2 hard disk of Raid 1 for starting.). Should I ghost the data from old ide disk to both 2 Hard disk of Raid 1 one by one. Or there exist any other method to make the raid 1 disk contains my old operating system and application (copy? or ghost?)(i.e. the old data should be mirrored to 2 disks of Raid 1) the 2 disks of Raid 1) the Raid 1 contains my old operating system Most raid controllers I have seen have a function within their initial setup screen (you should be able to get to this before the OS tries to boot) to build a Raid 1 array from one of the disks. So Ghost the data from your old drive to the first drive in your array, then use this feature to build the array from that disk. However depending on what Operating system you are running, you may find that you have to boot from a rescue disk or perform a repair installation in order to get it to boot. Windows (and to a reasonable extent Linux) doesn't like having it's boot device moved to a different controller sometimes. If you are running Windows, I'd say that booting once with the controller card in place so that you can at least get the drivers loaded onto the system may not be a bad idea. |
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