How to remove one of 2 disk in raid?

#1 (**permalink**) 10-18-2006, 09:42 PM

i wanna remove 1 disk from raid without lossing any data from first
disk what i need to stay, just wanna remove othjer disk, and install
fresh windows on one who staying in computer?

how do i that?

#2 (**permalink**) 10-18-2006, 10:19 PM

You did not say if you have a RAID 0 or RAID 1 array. If you have a RAID 0
array, what you want to do is impossible. Every piece of data is split
between the two disks. If you have a RAID 1 array you simply need to break
the array and reformat the remaining drive and do a fresh install of
Windows.

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DaveW

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"bhd" <ratkos@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>i wanna remove 1 disk from raid without lossing any data from first
> disk what i need to stay, just wanna remove othjer disk, and install
> fresh windows on one who staying in computer?
>
>
> how do i that?
>

#3 (**permalink**) 10-19-2006, 12:18 AM

"bhd" <ratkos@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1161207756.634583.229910@k70g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com...
>i wanna remove 1 disk from raid without lossing any data from first
> disk what i need to stay, just wanna remove othjer disk, and install
> fresh windows on one who staying in computer?

You'll need a third drive (or someplace else to backup to) to copy all your
data to. You could ghost the array to the third drive, pull the drive you
want, then ghost the image back to the remaining drive.