Create a Mirrored Volume in Win2k Server

Contributed by mikejc August 15, 2006  
Tagged: Windows

A very easy step on disk mirroring on win2k.

You must have two Hard-drives with the same spec or even just a separate HDD but must have the same size of partition. Installed on existing win2k server.

1. Right Click “My Computer” and select Manage

2. Select Disk Management

3. Right Click an area of unallocated space on one of the drives that will be a part of the mirrored volume set and select “Create Volume”

4. When the create volume wizard start, click next button.

5. In the select Volume Type Dialog Box, select the Mirrored Volume radio button.

6. In the Select Disk dialog box, select the second dynamic disk to be part of the mirrored volume set and click the add button.

7.In the assign Drive Letter or Path dialog Box, accept the default.

then check in the disk management utility the result.

Enjoy

mikejc