My computer has one harddrive on it. I want to add one more haddrive and setup with RAID level 1. But I want to know after I did setup, my computer will has 2 OS (Window XP) on its OR just ONLY ONE harddrive (C:) has Windows XP on it??
That means my computer will has 2 OS ( windows XP) on 2 harddrive, right? And If I install some others program such as Microsoft Office, Adobe photoshop...These programs will also have on 2 harddrives?
Assuming you have a system that supports RAID, after migrating your system to RAID 1 the two physical drive look like one Logical drive to your system. So when you install something it physically copied to both drives. But when you look at the drives in the Disk Manager it will show only one disk. But if one fails you keep going, and can re-build the array after replacing the disk, nothing will be lost.
One more issue please, when one haddrive failed and I replace it...What's next? Windows will copy from old to new OR we have to setup RAID configuration from beginning (in this case all Data will lost)?
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Posted December 5th, 2004 19:00