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Can software Mirror be used on another computer safely?

I have a Windows 2003 server that has a data partition comprised of two SATA drives in a RAID 1 Software Mirror. I will be taking one of the drives out of the server and attaching it to a PC for the purposes of transferring data from it. When the transfer is complete I will reconnect the SATA to the server and power it back on. I will not be powering on the server until the drive is reattached. I don't anticipate any issues but welcome your experiences and advice. Should work fine right? Thank you.

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Joshua Grantom

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CanOfWorms

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One of the drives in the mirror is failing making accessing the data from the mirror painfully slow. I can not transfer/backup the data in the state that its in. I must get the good drive alone and backup the data (because there is no current back of the data yikes!) before I proceed with a repair.

I know this method should theoretically work but have never tried it myself. Because there is no backup this is live data and I don't want to chance it. I am hoping someone here might have done this in the past and can share. :)

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What Mirror Software is being used?

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CanOfWorms

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That scenario should be acceptable. When I reinstall the disk I do not plan on recreating the mirror. So as long as Windows will accept the disk back, even if its as a foreign disk that is fine. Also fine for Windows to bring it back as a broken mirror. As long as I can share folder from it until the server gets replaced.

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Also, yes. Using the native software mirror ability in Windows Server 2003.

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I have been able to mount the broken mirror disk into a PC and transfer the data. I would like to mention that in my case when I broke the mirror the disk that had bad blocks was kept the original drive letter designation and the good disk received a new drive letter. Trying to view the drive on the original server in explorer resulted in an error "incorrect function". Thanks for the help here.