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ARC Path for new HD?

Asked by jonathanv_00 in Windows 2000 Operating System

Tags: arc, path, 2000

A Windows 2000 server in one of our offices is running out of disk space, and I want to add a hard drive.  This machine currently has one small drive (4GB) and two 18GB drives.  The 4GB drive has the OS on it and is mirrored to a 4GB partition on one of the 18GB drives. The remaining 13GB is mirrored to a 13GB partition on the second drive. I have a third, identical 18GB drive that I would like to install in the server and set up as a third drive in a RAID-5 setup.

Here's the question - what's the best way to put in the new drive and not have to re-install Win2000?  Can I re-write the ARC path in boot.ini to use the mirrored drive (Disk 1 instead of the Disk 0 (4GB drive)), remove the 4GB drive, shut down the server, and then install the additional 18GB drive?  On rebooting, I would use Disk Manager to create a RAID-5 array for both the OS partitions (4GB) and data partitions (3x13GB, for a usable 26GB).

Don't know if that's clear, so let's try this:

Disk 0 - 4GB partition with Win2000
Disk 1 - 18GB - 4GB partition with mirror of Disk 0, 13GB partition with data
Disk 2 - 18GB - 13GB partition with mirror or Disk 1; unused 4GB partition

Want to add: 18GB drive with partitions of 4GB and 13GB.

boot.ini now reads:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Server" /fastdetect

I know this probably isn't that difficult of a question, but it's worth a premium as I'd like to do this in a couple of days. Thanks in advance.  
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