New SATA drive mirror 2

[carpediem79]

I have 2 new WD 80GB SATA drives.

I had a WD 80GB IDE drive.

I have a DOS version of windows norton ghost on CD I was trying to use to get the info off of the old drive onto the new drives, which I want mirrored.

My motherboard is an MSI K7N2 Delta2-LSR, here is a link to the info on it:

http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=K7N2_Delta2-LSR

The onboard RAID controller is an nVidia controller. It seems to work fine. I was able to boot up on the old IDE drive and had the 2 SATA drives mirrored. They appeared as 1 D:\ drive.

However, I cannot transfer the partition or clone my IDE drive onto the SATA drives. I can clone it or transfer it onto one, and it boots up and runs fine.

Is there a program I can use to do this? I just want to avoid reinstalling EVERYTHING all over again.

Thanks.

 

[BaudKarma]

Can you transfer the data over to one drive, then hook up the second drive and set up the RAID mirror? Your system should see the new array and mirror your data onto the 2nd drive automatically.

 

[carpediem79]

hmm....

ya know...next time I boot it, I will try setting up the RAID in windows, see if it works.

Will try tonight.

last time, I tried doing that in the DOS interface for the RAID controller, and it would get an error while booting that it could not detect the O/S.

maybe the windows one will be different.

 

[rvnguy]

carpediem79,

Nvidia has an excellent snapin to manage drives on their controller. It is included with the driver package or can be down loaded from their site.

I would suggest that you only use their manager/configruator for these drives.

rvnguy
"I know everything..I just can't remember it all

 

[carpediem79]

Will do. I didn't get home til midnight last night, so not enough time to try and use the windows nVidia manager to create the array. I will be home early enough tonight to try it. I have a feeling that may do the trick.

 

[carpediem79]

It is running great thus far. I tried doing the array in windows, using the nVidia windows software to create it instead of the BIOS software. Worked perfect.

Thanks guys!

 

[rvnguy]

carpediem79,

Thanks for posting back with your success!!

rvnguy
"I know everything..I just can't remember it all