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And just for the nerds that care at all. I whipped it. Whupped it good.
I was just a total chicken about risking the data. I had the extra 1TB drive in hand, so:
First I booted from a CD that has a full backup program (Acroness) and did a full backup of the boot drive to an external hard drive I have. Then shut down the computer, and unplugged the boot drive and set it aside. That was my 100% rock solid backup. I then rebooted to the Intel BIOS and deleted the old raid, and then built a new mirrored drive from the two 1TB drives. And sure enough, as expected, that deleted all data. I rebooted from the CD, and did a full restore of the system to the new RAID and abracadabra the system is back on two mirrored drives.
I will just let the system run and make sure it is stable, and then reformat the old boot drive and have a spare drive again.
It took two extra hard drives and a backup program but all data going back to 2001 and before is intact, and the MIL will be happy all is back to as it was, and she does not have to do anything different.
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Glen
49 Year member of the Porsche Club of America
1985 911 Carrera; 2017 Macan
1986 El Camino with Fuel Injected 350 Crate Engine
My Motto: I will never be too old to have a happy childhood!
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