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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
The system has just one non mirrored SCSI drive that is the boot drive. The RAID is an external 1 TB unit.
I put in a second blank drive and it is seen as drive D: and it is the same size as the boot drive C:
I just want to backup the boot drive and have a bootable replacement.
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OK, now I get it. Couple of options:
- Use Windows software RAID1 and just mirror the boot to new drive. It might need Win 2000 Server though
- Check if your Adaptec SCSI card support mirroring, then you can do it in card BIOS or through Adaptec utility. Make sure you chose correct source drive
- If exteral array is also SCSI, move both it to external array (if you have place), create a RAID1 volume from it and mark it as bootable. Make sure you enable SCSI boot in BIOS. This way, you have an automatic failover.
- Install R-drive image, chose disk copy on sector-by-sector basis. (I switched HDD boot drive for SSD without re-installing the OS this way four weeks ago).