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Trying to convert a basic disk to RAID-1 using ghost
I am trying to convert a basic disk to a 2-drive RAID-1 configuration. I have a clone of my data on an IDE drive, and now I want to move it back to my SATA drives once I configure them as RAID-1. If necessary, I should be able to make partition images of each of my 3 partitions to my IDE backup. I am using ghost 2003 to clone drives and make images. I assume I can't just do a disk clone from an IDE drive to a RAID-1 container. I also assume that I can't really copy the partitions over, because the data might be there but it wouldn't be bootable. The server I am working on is running SBS 2003. I have the OS disks and a tape backup to restore in a worst-case scenario.
What do I need to do to make this conversion work?
What do I need to do to make this conversion work?
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It turns out that cloning the lone sata drive to the ide, then back from ide to the RAID-1 SATA container worked just fine. Luckily my copy of ghost recognized the raid container as a single drive and allowed the copy operation. Thanks for the help.
Youre issue is because you´re moving from ide to sata, If you should a soft ware like Symantec fomrer live recovery "Restore anywhere" you wood have the possiblity to add driver for SATA.
the latest verson of Ghost has support for SATA drives but I´m not sure if you could add drivers.'
Robert Lundqvist