On 01/07/11 15:11, Mark Rogers wrote:
I have a guy on site trying to replace a hard disk in a server (W2003); simple job: shut the server down and image it to a new disk, boot from new disk, walk away.
Except it turns out not to be a single disk, it's two disks using Windows dynamic RAID which I know nothing about, but his imaging software doesn't handle it (Acronis).
ISTR that there are some Windows tools (maybe in the resource kit) that allow you to dump the NTFS image from a spanned dynamic disk and then reapply it somewhere else. But to do this I think you need either another instance of the same OS or enough space on your disk controller to accommodate both the old and new disks.
Otherwise a straight bit for bit copy of both members would work unless you want to resize the volumes or combine into one bigger one. I am not sure if the linux tools (or any tools for that matter) support resizing of dynamic disks but felt sure that bit was possible from the Windows disk mangler itself.