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Hard drive upgrade
Name: saflyfish Date: May 22, 2008 at 01:35:26 Pacific OS: Win server 2003 CPU/Ram: 3Ghz
Comment:
Hi...i have 2 80Gb hard drives which are mirrored running Win server 2003.I want to now upgrade to 2 250Gb drives.Whats the best way to do this?
Name: Curt R Date: May 22, 2008 at 06:43:38 Pacific
Reply:
Probably cloning the drive with something like Ghost that would allow you expand the image to the full available size of the drive once you're done.
Once you have your image, remove the smaller drives and replace them with the larger and then create your RAID 1 and the deploy the image using the correct switch to make it use the full drive.
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Response Number 2
Name: lwcomputing Date: May 26, 2008 at 02:07:51 Pacific
Reply:
That seems like a lot of work... why not just replace one drive, rebuild the RAID, then replace the other and rebuild. You cannot easily expand the C: drive, but you can use Diskpart to expand the other partition.
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