RAID 1 recovering

Hello everyone,
I have a Raid 1 arragement on our company 2003 server, one of
them is down, i would like clone the working one into a new disk and
sycrhonize them, however, some of my friend told me SID issue if
server detects changed of hardware it will change it security ID and
the newly installed disk will not work. How can i solve this problem
if it is true, some friends suggest using casper or acronis clone.

Thank you very much for help!

You don't clone anything.
It is RAID1,....that's mirroring,...replace the failed drive with a new
identical drive and start the machine back up. If it is a hot-swapable
Controller then you don't even power off the machine. The RAID Controller
will rebuild the "array".

Verify any possible "gotchas" by checking the Docs or by calling Customer
Support for your RAID Controller before proceeding.


--
Phillip Windell

The views expressed, are my own and not those of my employer, or Microsoft,
or anyone else associated with me, including my cats.
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<> wrote in message
news:...
> Hello everyone,
> I have a Raid 1 arragement on our company 2003 server, one of
> them is down, i would like clone the working one into a new disk and
> sycrhonize them, however, some of my friend told me SID issue if
> server detects changed of hardware it will change it security ID and
> the newly installed disk will not work. How can i solve this problem
> if it is true, some friends suggest using casper or acronis clone.
>
> Thank you very much for help!

Hello ,

check this ones to change the boot.ini, to choose the second healthy disk
to boot from:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/167045

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/102873

The SID doesn't belong to hardware, it belongs to windows itself. Every computer
or user account has a SID, which have to be unique. If you are able to get
the second disk running and add a new disk to bring the RAID1 again up this
is ok. No SID is changed that way. But if you clone a disk to install a second
computer, this machine has of course the same SID as the 'master' and the
SID has to be changed with sysprep.

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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> Hello everyone,
> I have a Raid 1 arragement on our company 2003 server, one of
> them is down, i would like clone the working one into a new disk and
> sycrhonize them, however, some of my friend told me SID issue if
> server detects changed of hardware it will change it security ID and
> the newly installed disk will not work. How can i solve this problem
> if it is true, some friends suggest using casper or acronis clone.
>
> Thank you very much for help!
>

Thank you for you guys instruction. But the situation is a bit
complicated, the RAID 1 disk is like 3/4 years old. the new drive on
hand are SATA 750 GB. does raid controller syn works? i am afraid it
won't let me boot once the syn is initiated. that' why others
recommending me to clone instead of using Raid controller!



On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:21:39 -0500, "Phillip Windell"
<> wrote:

>You don't clone anything.
>It is RAID1,....that's mirroring,...replace the failed drive with a new
>identical drive and start the machine back up. If it is a hot-swapable
>Controller then you don't even power off the machine. The RAID Controller
>will rebuild the "array".
>
>Verify any possible "gotchas" by checking the Docs or by calling Customer
>Support for your RAID Controller before proceeding.

Like I said. Contact the Support for the RAID Controller (or server
hardware),...*they* know the product,...I don't. This would be solved in a
couple hours or less (instead of days) if you would do that.


--
Phillip Windell

The views expressed, are my own and not those of my employer, or Microsoft,
or anyone else associated with me, including my cats.
-----------------------------------------------------


<> wrote in message
news:...
> Thank you for you guys instruction. But the situation is a bit
> complicated, the RAID 1 disk is like 3/4 years old. the new drive on
> hand are SATA 750 GB. does raid controller syn works? i am afraid it
> won't let me boot once the syn is initiated. that' why others
> recommending me to clone instead of using Raid controller!
>
>
>
> On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:21:39 -0500, "Phillip Windell"
> <> wrote:
>
>>You don't clone anything.
>>It is RAID1,....that's mirroring,...replace the failed drive with a new
>>identical drive and start the machine back up. If it is a hot-swapable
>>Controller then you don't even power off the machine. The RAID
>>Controller
>>will rebuild the "array".
>>
>>Verify any possible "gotchas" by checking the Docs or by calling Customer
>>Support for your RAID Controller before proceeding.