Windows XP Pro & Mirroring hard drives

[Jack]

I'm not sure if it's possible to mirror hard drives using
MS Windows XP Pro. Does anyone have any experience with
that here? Thanks for your response.

[Joseph Conway (MSFT)]

From the disk admin help, the drives have to be dynamic for a mirror, keep
that in mind:

To create a mirrored volume

Using the Windows interface

1.. Open Computer Management (Local).
2.. In the console tree, click Disk Management.
Where?

a.. Computer Management (Local)
b.. Storage
c.. Disk Management
3.. Right-click the unallocated space on one of the dynamic disks on which
you want to create the mirrored volume, and then click New Volume.
4.. In the New Volume Wizard, click Next, click Mirrored, and then follow
the instructions on your screen.
Notes

a.. To open Computer Management, click Start, and then click Control
Panel. Click Performance and Maintenance, click Administrative Tools, and
then double-click Computer Management.
b.. You must be logged on as an administrator or a member of the
Administrators group in order to complete this procedure. If your computer
is connected to a network, network policy settings may also prevent you from
completing this procedure.
c.. You can create mirrored volumes only on computers running Windows 2000
Server, Windows 2000 Advanced Server, or Windows 2000 Datacenter Server.
d.. You need two dynamic disks to create a mirrored volume.
e.. You can mirror an existing simple volume.
f.. Mirrored volumes are fault tolerant and use RAID-1, which provides
redundancy by creating two identical copies of a volume.
g.. Mirrored volumes cannot be extended or striped.
h.. Both copies (mirrors) of the mirrored volume share the same drive
letter.
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