New hard drive installation on to Dell PowerEdge 2650
Hello everyone,
I'm in the process of swapping an old hard drive with a new one on a Dell PowerEdge 2650. The hard drive that I will be swapping is the main C: drive but before I do this I'm going to create an image using Symatec ghost. Is there anything important that I need to be aware of before doing this? and How would I make the server detect the new hard drive? Since this will be first time swapping a server hard drive and I need to do this the correct way. Please any assistance will be great appreciated.
Thank you.
I'm in the process of swapping an old hard drive with a new one on a Dell PowerEdge 2650. The hard drive that I will be swapping is the main C: drive but before I do this I'm going to create an image using Symatec ghost. Is there anything important that I need to be aware of before doing this? and How would I make the server detect the new hard drive? Since this will be first time swapping a server hard drive and I need to do this the correct way. Please any assistance will be great appreciated.
Thank you.
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Thank you for your help!!! I could take it from here.
Ricky, if the drive is RAID 1 you don't need to ghost it off. Well, let me try again - ghost it off to get a backup, absolutely! But with RAID 1 (mirror) you can replace the drive and it will rebuild the mirror.
Are you using a RAID controller or Windows software mirroring?
Are you using a RAID controller or Windows software mirroring?
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2) I'm swapping the hard drive because its going bad and did a CHKDSK error checking and found many errors. Plus the hard drive that I'm swapping is a bigger capacity (300GB) original hard drive that I'm replacing is only 60GB.
3) The server is setup to RAID1
4) I don't have any additional hard drives with the same capacity.
5) Sounds good at longest it does the job.