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Replace failed RAID 1 Drive on Intel Platform

Good afternoon, I have a Intel Server running Windows 2008 R2 Standard. It has a RMS25PB080 Raid controller card in with. It has two logical drives, a RAID 1 and a RAID 5. The one harddrive on the ...
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Can I effectively clone my hard drive by using mirrored partitions in Win Server 2008?

I have a server running Win Server 2k8 R2 Foundation, functioning as a basic file server and CAD software licensing server, with the following situation: Originally installed with 2x 250GB physical ...
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Reinserted a RAID disk. Defined as foreign. Is import or clear the correct choice?

I have re-inserted a RAID disk, on a DELL server with Windows Server 2008. The drive-status indicator was changing between a green and amber light, and the monitor gave the following message: ...
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How do I detect whether my Hard Drive is RAID configured?

I'm not certain if this question makes complete sense. I'm trying to find out if a server is RAID configured. The Device is HP Proliant SCSI, but that's all I know, it's a terabyte drive. I've used ...
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Convert to dynamic disk / option disabled

I'm trying to setup a software RAID-1 at a new hosted server. It has two 3TB disks in and I've installed a fresh copy of Windows Server 2008 R2 Web Edition with SP1 on one of those disks. A step-by-...
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I need to provision 30TB for a server. Does this process have anything to do with Logical Memory?

I'm currently buying a server that NEEDS 30TB of storage, 15TB of which is logical and 15TB is physical. However the towers only allow 8 2TB 3.5 inch HDD's, which gets me to 16TB. How do I get ...
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Windows 2008 RAID Failed Redudancy - which is the "current" disk?

I have a Windows 2008 Server with a two-drive software RAID 1 (mirroring). Last night one of the drives apparently failed (just disappeared from the system) and I had to boot from the secondary plex ...
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Save and restore striped disk configuration on Windows 2008

I am running Windows 2008 Datacenter on Amazon EC2 and have created 4 EBS volumes that I am going to attach to the instance and create a single striped volume in Windows. My main concern is having to ...
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