[Ham-Computers] RAID 1 Questions

[Jim Hill]

How do you use RAID 1?   I Googled RAID 1, and understand it backs up 
your C drive to a second internal drive of the same size.  Does it 
run automatically, or do is there a menu somewhere?  If you need to 
recover, what do you do?

My Dell E510 is set up for RAID 1 - I'm not sure why since it came 
with Norton Ghost 10.  It has the option to return to original 
factory settings if F12 is pressed during startup, the app. and image 
are on their own "drives" and the RAID configuration may be provided 
so the user won't tamper with them.  I wanted to add an extended 
partition and was unable to do so.

I'm having problems with this computer (not shutting down properly, 
not printing, etc.) and am thinking of installing a new drive and 
making a clean installation, and am wondering whether to use the RAID 
1 configuration.  Norton Ghost 10 is no longer supported by Symantec 
so I'll probably not use it.

Jim