Mirror the system drive

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Ryan

Does anyone know how to mirror the system drive. I have Win2000 server
w/ SP4 (all freshly installed). Now I want to mirror the system
partition with 2 40GB hard drives. When I right click on C: in disk
management, the Add Mirror is greyed out. I found this Q article
(http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;113932).

All it says is this:
"Disk mirroring is the only type of fault tolerance provided by Windows
NT Advanced Server that you can use on the system or boot partitions."

So does that mean that I can only mirror system drives on W2K Advanced
Server. I am sure I have mirrored the System Drive on a W2K Server before.

Any ideas?

Ryan
 
I've got mirrored drives on Win2000 Server and I seem to recall that
it requires the disks to be dynamic. Anyway I'm sure if you search
Google you'll find your answer. That where I got mine when I had
the same question last year.

Jordon
 
I can mirror, any no system partition. Its the system partition that I
want to mirror that I can't make it go.

Ryan
 
Bjorn,

The problem is still there. It doesn't allow me to "Add Mirror" to the
system partition. If I right click on the little 7 MB partition at the
end the option is there to Add Mirror.

Anyone else have any ideas?

Why would I need Advanced server to mirror the system partition?

Ryan
 
The problem is still there. It doesn't allow me to "Add Mirror" to the
system partition. If I right click on the little 7 MB partition at the
end the option is there to Add Mirror.

Anyone else have any ideas?

Why would I need Advanced server to mirror the system partition?
Click to expand...

You don't need Advanced Server. I don't have Advanced Server
and I have mirrored drives. Are the drives dynamic?

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=302969

Jordon
 
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