RAID 1. Can you help?

Question

Ok, I was doing a practice lab that involved setting up RAID 1...and it wasn't working.

First, I set up dynamic disks. Then went to computer management and right-clicked the unallocated space, and chose to create a volume.

In the box that pops up, I got "Simple Volume", and the other choices were grayed out...including the choice I needed, which was "Mirrored Volume".

I tried many different things, including formatting simple volumes of equal sizes.

No matter what, I could never get the option to create a Mirrored Volume.

Any ideas?

This was a lab computer, ghosted with Win Server 2003, with about 3 GB or so default for the primary partition, of which I can choose whatever I want for unallocated space.

Answer 1

My first instinct is that you can't create a mirrored volume on the same physical drive.

Software RAID is never recommended in terms of performance, but if it's anything like the hardware solution, you'd have to use a second physical drive, not just a new partition on the same drive, for the mirror.

How did they get Server 2003 into a 3GB partition? The C:\Windows folder alone on mine is well over 4GB...

Good luck!