Can I use a second HD to mirror the first one

[Francis]

I have XP pro, and two identical hard disks. At the moment I use the second as a manual backup.
Can I set XP up to do this automatically and use RAID and Mirroring to get hot standby.
The first HD has several partitions
Thanks

 

[access64]

WIndows XP pro does not have built in support for mirrored volumes. You maybe able to do it with other software but not sure.

 

[BernardStewart]

I have xp pro and am running a raid 5 card and 4 drives on the raid system - it runs very well - the disc benchmark shows it reads at 200 times faster than a seagatet 10gb disc and 23 times faster than a quantum 7200 disc!!!!
The raid system is then divided into numerous partitions for and using drive image am able to store copies of thye original installation as well as back ups.
If you want a reliable fast system this seems to be the best workstation I have been able to configure.
I also have a spare EIDE drive as well with a dual boot facility so that if the raid was to fail the date and operating system are on it and provides an alternative boot facility.