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How to set up a RAID1 mirror with a drive which already has Windows installed

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r Boot your server and watch out for Press <Ctrl><A> for Adaptec RAID

Configuration Utility. When the message appears, press Ctrl+A to go into your

Adaptec controller BIOS (also called the “Configuration Utility”). Keep pressing

Ctrl+A until you get a message confirming that “Ctrl+A was pressed”.

r Once inside your Adaptec controller’s BIOS, choose Disk Utilities.

r Inside Disk Utilities check that both your hard disks are showing properly, that

the new hard disk is of the correct size, and make sure both the hard disks show

up as SATA-II (SATA-2) just in case your hard disks have jumpers which

configure them as SATA-1 (SATA-2 shows up as 3.0Gb/s transfer speed).

r Escape back to the Main Menu.

r This time choose Array Configuration Utility.

r Next, choose Add / Delete Host Spare

r Press the INS (Insert) key to select the new hard disk you installed. This will

move the new drive to “Assigned Hotspare Drives” in the top right-hand

corner.

r Press Enter.

r At this point you will get a warning saying : “Do you want to create a spare ?

(Yes/No) :”

r Enter Y for Yes.

r Your are now back at the Main Menu.

r Next, choose Manage Arrays.

r In the “List of Arrays” in the top right corner of the screen press Enter on your

current RAID 1 array.

You should now see the “Array Properties” screen which tells you you have a

Missing Member and that your Array Status is DEGRADED.

r Press Esc.

r Press Ctrl+R to Rebuild your RAID 1 array.

r The screen will change and you will now get the Array Building Progress

Screen showing. On it you should see the Array Status showing BUILDING

and the BLOCK number increasing.

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