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Thread: Vista and Software-RAID (mirroring)

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    Vista and Software-RAID (mirroring)

    I am running Windows XP on my machine with some modified files to use the hidden mirroring feature and this has worked for many years. I am able to create a mirror of two 250gb hard drive which is ATA/IDE as Raid 1. Just recently I installed Windows Vista business on a third hard drive and then the Windows XP installation got over written without unlocking the mirror on both the 250gb drive. Now, I am not able to access the fully intact mirror with Windows Vista and neither I can reactivate one of the hard drives. So, I was wondering if it is possible to handle the mirror sets with Windows Vista? Any help would be appreciated.

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    RE: Vista and Software-RAID (mirroring)

    Could you please tell us whether the hard drives are showing as a basic disks or a dynamic disks?

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    Re: Vista and Software-RAID (mirroring)

    Both the hard drives are indicated as dynamic disks.

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    Re: Vista and Software-RAID (mirroring)

    I think that Windows Vista business does not support mirroring. Only Windows Vista Enterprise and Windows Vista Ultimate editions support dynamic disks. You can get more information on this from here - http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...-dynamic-disks

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