This sounds scary, glad I'm not the one who has to physically do it.  

So only the drive LETTERS might get messed up, not the configuration or any
of the data?  I.e. we upsize the mirrored pair, that doesn't do anything to
the three-disk RAID5 array?

> From: "Geo." 
> "Ellen K."  wrote in message
> news:h9pkd01lpi0ftb5km52lbgc56gheg6jm3g{at}4ax.com...
>> I'll pass this on and thank you very much as usual, but for my non-admin
>> brain could you please explain how you FIRST restore and THEN recreate
>> the mirror?   You restore on one, then when you create the mirror
>> presto-changeo the first one copies itself to the other one?
>Yes, what happens is  you install NT to drive 0, then the backup software, the
> restore. The restored system is then booted and you go into disk admin and
> create the mirror. It will take a while to mirror 30g (probably about an hour
>to rebuild the volume depending on disk speed) and then it's all green and go.
>> Also, will the other drives try to rename themselves during this process
>> since the mirrored pair is where the boot partition is?
> Probably when you do the initial restore they will appear messed up but don't
>worry about it till after you have created the mirror and rebooted, once you d
> that the drive letters should be back to normal and if not then you can use
> disk admin to set them however you want.
>One thing I failed to mention, before doing any of this go into disk admin and
>create a backup of the stripe or mirror set config to a floppy, I know I neede
>that in NT4 and I think it still applies in W2K. Should be an option for doing
> that in disk administrator on one of the pulldown menus.
> Geo.

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