[Ham-Computers] Mirroring hard drive?

[WF2U]

This is not called mirroring. Mirroring is  RAID 1 mode,(RAID = Redundant
Array of Independent -or Inexpensive - Disks, a configuration of disk drives
that employ two or more drives in combination for fault tolerance and
performance). RAID disk drives are used frequently on servers but aren't
generally necessary for personal computers.  To simplify the explanation, in
mirroring the same data is written on 2 disks simultaneously, so if one disk
goes bad, the other still has the data.
NT 4 had the built-in capability to this, later versions need 3rd party
software/hardware for RAID. Modern versions of Linux also have built-in RAID
configuration.

What you want to do is disk cloning.

Norton Ghost is a good program to do this and new hard drives usually come
with disk cloning/copying utilities.

73, Meir WF2U / NNN0AAF
Landrum, SC

Meir Ben-Dror CNE, MCSE, MCSA
System Support Specialist
Educational Technology Dept.,
Greenville County School District, South Carolina




> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:ham-computers-bounces at mailman.qth.net]On Behalf Of John Burch
> Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 9:19 AM
> To: Ham Computers List
> Subject: [Ham-Computers] Mirroring hard drive?
>
>
> Anyone out there have any *real* experience
> with mirroring an existing hard drive onto
> a new hard drive in the same computer, and
> then removing the old hard drive, and actually
> getting W2K to boot, recognize the new drive
> as the sole hard drive, and having everything
> work correctly?
>
> If so, I'd like to chat with you.
>
> Thanks de John
> ..
>
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