Expanding RAID 1

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Hello All,
I have Adaptec Serial ATA RAID 1210SA with 2 x 120GB SATA RAID1 running Win
XP pro.
I have this setup for almost a year. no problems at all. What I would like
to accomplish to replace my 2 * 120GBs with 2 * 200GBs

Note: it is my boot drive. with one 120gb partition.
What is the best way to do the drive upgrade?

Please any input on this is appreciated..
Thanks,
ZK

 

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My suggestion is to use a program like Ghost 2003, boot from floppy backup
your RAID to a external USB or Firewire drive. Then replace your hard
drives with the new 200 GB hard drives, create the RAID, and then using the
Ghost Floppy restore the image from the external drive. Ghost will detect
that the drive space is now larger and ask what you want to do with the
extra space, and you can just add it to a partition in your image.

I have done this before and it works really well.

--
Eric Renken
Microsoft Associate Expert.
Expert Zone
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/



"Zayd Khaial" <zkhaial@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hello All,
> I have Adaptec Serial ATA RAID 1210SA with 2 x 120GB SATA RAID1 running
> Win XP pro.
> I have this setup for almost a year. no problems at all. What I would like
> to accomplish to replace my 2 * 120GBs with 2 * 200GBs
>
> Note: it is my boot drive. with one 120gb partition.
> What is the best way to do the drive upgrade?
>
> Please any input on this is appreciated..
> Thanks,
> ZK
>