Problems Galore...

[blackman]

OK...

I've been away from work for two months and during that time my (so-called) replacement installed SBS 2003 on our new server.

The server has three 120 GB HDD's and the natural thing to do would have been to build a RAID-5 array. But the stupid git didn't... :crazy: He obviously didn't configure the array properly and the end-product is that SBS installed on a single HDD with the two others just sitting there doing absolutely nothing.

My question is this:

If I make an image of the system disk and then re-configure the array properly as RAID-5, then put the image back on the 240 GB disk that the RAID-5 will give me - will it work or will I have to reinstall the whole shebang?

Server Specs:

2* Intel Xeon Processors

Intel "Clearwater" Server Board

3* 120 GB SATA HDD's

2 GB DDR

and so on and so forth....

Thanks for any helpful suggestions,

[garethevans1986]

Id say, if you've got an exact image of the drive then it should be alright if things go well or not.

When you create a RAID-5 array do you have to have "clean" (formatted) drives to do so, or can one drive have something on?

ChocIST

[blackman]

When creating a RAID array, all the data on the disks is erased...

So you see, it doesn't really matter if there is data on the disks or not, cos it won't be there once the array is finished...

Going to give it a shot this evening... Wish me luck

[UnaBonger]

I say, back everything up, rebuild the server & array properly then restore what you backed up.... Pain in the A$$ but effective...

[verb`]

Before you create your image, make sure you have added the drivers for your RAID card, otherwise the thing wont boot.