Drive mirroring on Windows 2000 server

[salz118]

I have a Windows 2000 server with 2 hard drives. The primary drive has 2 volumes: the boot volume and a data volume. I want to mirror these 2 volumes to the other hard drive.

When I click on the unallocated space of the second drive, I can successfully mirror one volume but then the mirror option is grayed out when I try to mirror the other volume.

I've tried and tried to CTRL+click to try and choose both volumes to be mirrored but that doesn't work.

Someone told me only one volume can be mirrored but that just doesn't sound right.

Through my online research, I just can't find any articles that verify or dispute mirroring of more than one volume on the same drive.

I'd appreciate ANY advice.

My e-mail is salz118@hotmail.com

Thanks!

[Zartach]

Are you sure that the 2 disks are excactly the same size ?

Microsoft reccomends to use the same type of disk made by the same vendor because sometimes when they say its yay big it is actually a little diffrent.

[armyoffoo]

So, your trying to mirror one physical hard drive to another physical hard drive through Windows Disk Manager, right? If so, then you must convert both disks to Dynamic disks. Right-click Disk 0 and choose Convert to Dynamic Disk, you will have to reboot if Windows is installed on this Disk. Do the same for Disk 1, then you should be able to add mirrors to your partitions. You must have enough free space on the second drive to add the mirrors, it has to be at least as big as your first drive.

[cluberti]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...;302969&sd=tech

[fizban2]

aahhh and there is cluberti with the microsoft preffered solution

[cluberti]

If you don't understand how to modify the ARC path in boot.ini, I wouldn't suggest this...