Creating RAID 1 from existing non-RAID drive...

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I just want to make sure that this is possible before I start tackling manuals 'n such...

I'm pretty inexperienced when it comes to building RAID arrays, and while I understand the concepts behind them, I'm not 100% sure on all of the possibilities.

I've inherited a server using a Dell PERC 4/SC at work that was set up with a non-RAID 74GB physical drive partitioned into ~12GB and ~60GB partitions... The 12GB partition is the system drive

What I've been asked to do is move the contents of the 60GB partition to another physical drive in the server, and image the 12GB system partition to a 74GB RAID 1 array that will use two new physical drives.

This should be possible, but what would be the best way to go about it? Can I image the 12GB partition to a single drive and then build a RAID 1 array from that single drive, or if I set up the RAID 1 array first, will the imaging software/RAID controller automatically write the image to both drives in the new array? I currently have a bootable copy of Norton Ghost 8, but do you guys have any better recommendations?

Ideally, I'd just perform a fresh installation of the server OS, but that's not feasible at this point.

Thanks for any help!