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February 24th, 2007 19:00
Upgrade RAID-5 SATA array
Current configuratioin is Poweredge SC1420 running Windows 2003 Server with Serial ATA CONTROLLER CERC-SATA-6CH and three 40GB, 7.2K, WD-XL80SD-2 hard drives in RAID-5 Array. There is not enough space to mount additonal drives, so I'd like to replace the 40's with 250's and clone the existing array. Existing array is partitioned into 3 partitions.
Can I hook three new 250 gb SATA drives in temporarily, configure them as a second RAID-5 set? (How?)
What software can I use to clone the existing array to the new array? (Ghost doesn't work on servers)
At what point and how do I expand the size of the logical D: and E: drives to use the full new space on the larger array?
Then can I simply reconfigure with only the larger RAID-5 set and simply boot and run with room to grow?
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DELL-GaryS
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February 28th, 2007 20:00
SteveMpcrs
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DELL-GaryS
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SteveMpcrs
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March 24th, 2007 19:00
DELL-GaryS
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April 17th, 2007 14:00
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April 18th, 2007 12:00
And to fix this, boot to the Windows CD and select to boot to the recovery console (it's under the repair option). In there do a 'fixboot' and reboot again to see if that helps. Some info on the recovery console can be found here.
If that doesn't work, an alternative would be to make a boot.ini and put it on a floppy disk. Then boot to the recovery console, rename the existing boot.ini (cannot delete it in the recovery console), and copy the file from the floppy in it's place.
Another option, which may be a bit more involving is to try a repair from the Windows install CD (with or without the emergency repair disk).
Yet another option would be to use a disk management utility that you can run from a CD or so to moke just a little bit of space 'in front of' the Windows partition and create another 'dead' partition there, which would make the boot.ini point to the Windows partition.
dp-it
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June 26th, 2007 11:00
DELL-GaryS
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June 26th, 2007 13:00
SteveMpcrs
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June 27th, 2007 02:00
DELL-GaryS
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June 27th, 2007 15:00
dp-it
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June 28th, 2007 12:00
I only need to mirror my C: drive so I won't have to reinstall Windows 2003 and all the software which is installed.
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June 28th, 2007 21:00
dp-it
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July 2nd, 2007 12:00
Message Edited by dp-it on 07-02-2007 08:21 AM
DELL-GaryS
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July 2nd, 2007 19:00