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I have a question about a setup....
First a little background on the problem I had.
A customer brought in a Dell XPS 400 with a Mirror Raid Setup with 2 160GB Raptor's one of the drives in the RAID has failed. In the process of looking for a replacement drive i found these drives to cost a small fortune for a new one. Now this customer only uses the computer for home use, no gaming at all. So having 2 10,000 RPM drives is a waste and not needed. Instead of spending 500 dollars on one drive, i just ordered two WD 320GB SATA HD's. This would double the storage and still keep a mirror backup. This is what i did.
First i booted into windows off the one drive that was still a raptor and ghosted the machine, just in case i broke the raid. Second i installed one of the new 320 GBs along with the 160 GB. The raid utility found the 2nd drive and wanted to rebuild the RAID on windows boot. Just what i thought it would do. So i booted into windows and waited a few hours for the copy to finish. Once it was done i removed the 160GB drive and installed the other 320GB. It did the same thing, found the drive and wanted to rebuild the RAID. Awesome i thought it was going to work and have no problems.
Well windows boots fine, but only shows the drive space as the 160GB, its not showing the new space of the bigger drive.
Can i run partition magic to resize the partitions without breaking the RAID?
First a little background on the problem I had.
A customer brought in a Dell XPS 400 with a Mirror Raid Setup with 2 160GB Raptor's one of the drives in the RAID has failed. In the process of looking for a replacement drive i found these drives to cost a small fortune for a new one. Now this customer only uses the computer for home use, no gaming at all. So having 2 10,000 RPM drives is a waste and not needed. Instead of spending 500 dollars on one drive, i just ordered two WD 320GB SATA HD's. This would double the storage and still keep a mirror backup. This is what i did.
First i booted into windows off the one drive that was still a raptor and ghosted the machine, just in case i broke the raid. Second i installed one of the new 320 GBs along with the 160 GB. The raid utility found the 2nd drive and wanted to rebuild the RAID on windows boot. Just what i thought it would do. So i booted into windows and waited a few hours for the copy to finish. Once it was done i removed the 160GB drive and installed the other 320GB. It did the same thing, found the drive and wanted to rebuild the RAID. Awesome i thought it was going to work and have no problems.
Well windows boots fine, but only shows the drive space as the 160GB, its not showing the new space of the bigger drive.
Can i run partition magic to resize the partitions without breaking the RAID?