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You can break the raid easily. &nbsp;Just unplug one drive. &nbsp;The raid controller will warn on boot that it has lost one drive, assuming it has died. &nbsp;You can bypass this and boot. &nbsp;However, you can not add that drive and another and build a raid V on it. &nbsp;You will need to back up the data and start form scratch. &nbsp;You can't just introduce 2 more drives and tell it to build the single drive image over the 3 drives. &nbsp;It must be built then copied. &nbsp;A few more questions:<br />
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Is this hardware raid or software?<br />
Why raid V? &nbsp;Do you do a lot of disk writes? &nbsp;They will not be great in raid V. &nbsp;I would recommend getting 2 drives and going Raid 10. &nbsp;Then you have mirroring and performance (striping).
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You can break the raid easily.  Just unplug one drive.  The raid controller will warn on boot that it has lost one drive, assuming it has died.  You can bypass this and boot.  However, you can not add that drive and another and build a raid V on it.  You will need to back up the data and start form scratch.  You can't just introduce 2 more drives and tell it to build the single drive image over the 3 drives.  It must be built then copied.  A few more questions:

Is this hardware raid or software?
Why raid V?  Do you do a lot of disk writes?  They will not be great in raid V.  I would recommend getting 2 drives and going Raid 10.  Then you have mirroring and performance (striping).

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windows 2000 server<br />
Their is a software RAID 1 mirror<br />
The disk is set to dynamic<br />
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I want to break/remove the mirror and change the disks back to basic<br />
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How can I do this?<br />
Will I lose data?<br />
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I then want to add a new drive and create a RAID 5 can I do this all via windows 2000?<br />
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Thanks
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windows 2000 server
Their is a software RAID 1 mirror
The disk is set to dynamic

I want to break/remove the mirror and change the disks back to basic

How can I do this?
Will I lose data?

I then want to add a new drive and create a RAID 5 can I do this all via windows 2000?

Thanks

How to break/remove software raid 1

Windows 2000 is an operating system for use on both client and server computers. It is the successor to Windows NT 4.0, and is the last version of Microsoft Windows to display the "Windows NT" designation. Four editions of Windows 2000 were released (Professional, Server, Advanced Server, and Datacenter Server) that shared a core set of features, including many system utilities such as the Microsoft Management Console. All versions of the operating system support NTFS 3.0, Encrypting File System, as well as basic and dynamic disk storage. The Windows 2000 Server family includes support for Active Directory services, Distributed File System and fault-redundant storage volumes.

Windows 2000

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