Upgrade Single Disk to Raid 1

[leegregory]

Hello.

We have an HP ML350 g3 Server with a single hard disk (36gb) running 2003 server SP1.

We have a PCI raid card that we want to put in the server so we can upgrade the disk to a hardware mirrored set.

We need to keep the server software install as it is so we will be making a clone copy of the hard disk using Ghost.

Can we then set-up the raid card with two mirrored disks (36gb) and ghost the image back onto the mirrored set?

What is the best way of achieving this?

Thanks in Advance

 

[nikos232]

I am really not sure Ghost will recognize the RAID HBA.
The best issue is to use NTBACKUP (>start >run >ntbackup) and use "backup entire system" to an external drive (prefer an IDE or SCSI drive), create recovery diskette (will ask you a diskette at the end of backup). Then install RAID controller, drives etc...,and create logical volume.

You will need to proceed as you will reinstall windows, but press F2 when loading Windows install interface "Press F2 to launch Automatic System Recovery" , insert the recovery diskette you previously created then it will recover the system copy you made on the backup drive.

You may need to press F6 (specify third party drivers) after press F2 if your HBA is a new or recent card, thus to insert driver disk you got with your HBA...

Caution!
The newly created logical drive MUST have same or larger capacity as original system drive.
Allways use identical drive models, size, model numbers, and vendors to create RAID volumes.

Good luck