Mirroring Drives or RAID 5

[Allan]

Does anyone know if this can be done under Windows XP Pro, I have read loads
of information and no one seems to mention weather or not you can under xp,
MS says the following....

Mirrored volumes are available on all computers running Windows 2000 Server,
Windows 2000 Advanced Server, and Windows 2000 Datacenter Server. Mirrored
volumes are not available on computers running Windows 2000 Professional,
XOX, XOX, or XOX 64-Bit Edition. However, you can use a computer running
Windows 2000 Professional or XOX to create mirrored volumes on a remote
computer running Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2000 Advanced Server, or
Windows 2000 Datacenter Server.

Any ideas or suggested websites...

Thanks Guys

[Neal B. Scott]

Was this the link you were looking at?
HOW TO: Create a Mirrored Volume in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q307880

Notice the knowledgebase article says 'remote computer' all over it. I
almost missed it myself. That 'remote computer' had better be running
Windows2000 server (or better) or you are stuck. XP itself does not appear
to mirror in any way shape or form. BLAST IT ALL! The KB article merely
says you can create a mirror remotely (on a Win2000 box) so you don't have
to get up from your desk and walk on over to the server itself to do it.
Mind you I am only talking about XP software based mirroring/raid. It is
very possible to do it hardware, and I am doing IDE RAID with XP Pro even as
I write this with a FastTrak card from www.promise.com I was doing
mirroring with 2 identical hard drives, but redid it all to just be
spanning.

Next best thing is perhaps to schedule XP Pro's Backup program to run every
night and save a backup to other harddrive. Not very nice but better than
nothing. I've got one machine setup to do a full backup every weekend, and
does an incremental backup any other night, all to the spare hard drive.

-Neal

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