newsposter Posted May 1, 2009 Share Posted May 1, 2009 I must have taken a long drink from the Stupid Bottle this morning, but for the life of me I can't get my C: to mirror to another available drive.My D: mirrored just fine.Help, hints, antidote appreciated!Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fizban2 Posted May 1, 2009 Share Posted May 1, 2009 are you trying to do this from windows? or is this a hardware RAID? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluberti Posted May 1, 2009 Share Posted May 1, 2009 2 things - one, you must have a second disk that's at least the same size as the volume you want to mirror, and two, you won't get this to work from within Windows once it's configured on a boot volume, or at least not without configuring the disks to be dynamic disks, as you cannot mirror a basic boot volume once Windows is running, only dynamic disks - this has been a requirement since Windows 2003, and obviously, hardware RAID is preferred to a dynamic disk RAID in Windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newsposter Posted May 1, 2009 Author Share Posted May 1, 2009 Ahhhh, I forgot the deal with basic/dynamic disks. That's exactly what I've got here.For the record, the drives I'd *like* to mirror are the same model adn capacity, identical.Is here anyway to downgrade a dynamic disk to a basic disk? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluberti Posted May 1, 2009 Share Posted May 1, 2009 Yes, but I wouldn't personally do it. Windows has no such feature, although there are third party products that claim to be able to do it. Again, I'd consider it a one-way street. You're using Windows for RAID, so I'm not sure I'd worry about it if you have a good backup strategy anyway, as Windows for RAID instead of a hardware RAID card is not what I'd recommend either, but if you're just testing it should be fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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