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Broke Mirror, now i can't re-mirror win2k3

Here's my problem. I had mirrors working fine on win2k, then i upgraded to win2k3 and the mirrors were working great. Then i said, let me introduce a 3rd drive (SATA - ALL OF THEM R SATA). So i tried but couldn't. I broke the mirror in hopes of recreating the mirror on all 3 drives, now win2k3 doesn't even offer an option for a mirror on any drive. They all say they're simple dynamic drives, with NTFS. How do i get the mirrors back?!? Thanx all!

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PS
Here are the options on the C: drive

open, explore, change drive letter and paths, properties

old mirrored drive option

open, explore, change drive letter and paths, format, delete volume, properties and help.

Thanx again

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engineroom

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okay. Cool! But now, how do i add the third mirror?

aissim

Well...as long as both of the disks are wiped and set as 'unallocated space' you should be able to select them when you're adding the mirror and prompted to select the disk(s). I've never used 3 disks for mirroring....but I know they've always said "Raid 1 or mirroring is for 2 or more disks"....

With that said your 3rd disk might be more useful in another fashion. Just thinking that the likelihood of losing two of your disks in that short of a timeframe that you'd actually need the 3rd is highly unlikely. You could use the 3rd disk for additional space versus letting the mirror gobble it up......

engineroom

ASKER

It asked me to choose which drive i wanted to select the mirror on. It didn't let me select both..?

engineroom

ASKER

I'm gonna accept the answer you gave me before, but i still want the 3 mirrors. Can you help!?

aissim

Let me see what I can dig up - I'll post back in just a few!

engineroom

ASKER

Thanx!