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Originally Posted by beepbeep
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). |
Ah HA! Maybe that is the magic answer. I will download it and give R-image a try.
We really don't use that old RAID for much except to keep some not real critical old files that are handy to have. We want to keep it running as long as possible because of inertia more than anything. We have another 38 TB of RAID storage and will be buying another one soon. We just need a Petabyte RAID, well we WANT a Petabyte RAID.
Well crap. I downloaded the trial version of R-Drive image and my antivirus program scanned the download and said it was unsafe and deleted it. Back to square one.
