Dynamic Disk Problems - Please Advise

edwelly · June 18th, 2003, 08:56 AM

I good friend of mine has taken his main mail server and converted the primary hard to a dynamic disk to allow him to mirror the drives. He forgot to GHOST the hard drive first and Ghost does not work on Dynamic disk (at least we can't figure it out if it does) - any advice on what to do? I don't think you can convert a Dynamic disk back to a Basic can you?
Thanks as always for the help!!!
---edwelly

meese · June 18th, 2003, 09:18 AM

You can't convert back to basic without wiping everything on the drive. You can still create the mirror set. The mirrored drive is a essentially a backup. But you still want to Ghost the drive anyway?

edwelly · June 18th, 2003, 09:20 AM

meese - yes still need to GHOST the drive to make sure EVERYTHING is saved - my friend has spent a lot of time configuring his and that on his server and doesn't want to loose and patches or quick fixes he has stumbled across.
---edwelly

meese · June 18th, 2003, 10:24 AM

I came across this MS KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=217226 , not sure if it will help.

edwelly · June 18th, 2003, 11:30 AM

meese - thanks for the article - that does help!
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-edwelly