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Installing and seting up raid 1

I have a HP server running windows server 2000, I have two identical 80gig hard drives in it. I want to setup and use
raid1. I already have the hardware controller in the server. My primary drive has information on it, but the second drive is blank, i want to use the second drive to mirror the primary drive. How do i go in to the computer and tell it to do so?? And will i lose any data on my primary drive? Do both drives have to be blank to do this?
Anyone who can help or guide me through this would be a great help!!
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I would get a ghost image of the drive.  Then I would go into the array controller and setup the array.  Many times when you create an array like this it will create a new partition, thus causing you to loose your data.  You can then restore your ghost image and be back up and running.  I would look at the documentation for the array controller as well.  If you tell us the exact controller that you are using maybe we can give you a better answer.  Regardless of the array I do it this way just to be on the safe side and to make things easier.
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What is the best way to ghost an image of the drive?? And you mean ghost an image of my primary drive? I will try to find out what kind of controller i am using
Get Symantec Ghost, and create a ghost image of the drive onto a spare drive.
And does that software help you restore the image back to the drive??
I think the controller is a Adaptec AHCI Serial ATA HostRaid, but i am not sure. What is the best way to find out what it is?
And i have also heard that Symantec Ghost does not work very well with Server 2000..... What is your opinion on it?
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