New Raid Mirroed drive using existing hdd

grarcher · Nov 8, 2016

I have a HDD that is currently booting to Win sever 2003 but failing. Bad Block reported.

I want to add new HDD to run as a mirror without having to reinstall software.
This is so I can remove the failing one and replace with a new one and rebuilding the mirror.

Its this or clone the hdd so it can reboot to win 2003 server. I am trying to save having to reinstall sever 2003 as the user cannot find the software media

indsup · Nov 8, 2016

If the drive is failing clone it and simply replace it with the new drive. It will be your best option. You keep all settings data etc. You might want to do it soon though because once a drive starts failing it can fail quickly. If that happens you loose everything and would have to reinstall and reconfigure.

grarcher · Nov 8, 2016

indsup :

thanks that is where I am currently looking any suggestions on software that will clone sevrer 2003 to a new hdd and is has to be simple for me.

USAFRet · Nov 8, 2016

grarcher :

If the drive is failing and has reported bad blocks, a simple clone operation will simply port that bad data to the new drive.

Does this have anything to do with your other RAID 1 drives or system?

However, for a clone operation, here:
(substitute "SSD" for "new HDD" as necessary)
-----------------------------
Download and install Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration, if a Samsung SSD)
Power off
Disconnect ALL drives except the current C and the new SSD
Power up
Run the Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration)
Select ALL the partitions on the existing C drive
Click the 'Clone' button
Wait until it is done
When it finishes, power off
Disconnect ALL drives except for the new SSD
Swap the SATA cables around so that the new drive is connected to the same SATA port as the old drive
Power up, and verify the BIOS boot order
If good, continue the power up

It should boot from the new drive, just like the old drive.
Maybe reboot a time or two, just to make sure.

If it works, and it should, all is good.

Later, reconnect the old drive and wipe as necessary.
Delete the original boot partitions, here:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/4f1b84ac-b193-40e3-943a-f45d52e23685/cant-delete-extra-healthy-recovery-partitions-and-healthy-efi-system-partition?forum=w8itproinstall
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grarcher · Nov 9, 2016

USAFRet :

grarcher :

If the drive is failing and has reported bad blocks, a simple clone operation will simply port that bad data to the new drive.

Does this have anything to do with your other RAID 1 drives or system?

However, for a clone operation, here:
(substitute "SSD" for "new HDD" as necessary)
-----------------------------
Download and install Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration, if a Samsung SSD)
Power off
Disconnect ALL drives except the current C and the new SSD
Power up
Run the Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration)
Select ALL the partitions on the existing C drive
Click the 'Clone' button
Wait until it is done
When it finishes, power off
Disconnect ALL drives except for the new SSD
Swap the SATA cables around so that the new drive is connected to the same SATA port as the old drive
Power up, and verify the BIOS boot order
If good, continue the power up

It should boot from the new drive, just like the old drive.
Maybe reboot a time or two, just to make sure.

If it works, and it should, all is good.

Later, reconnect the old drive and wipe as necessary.
Delete the original boot partitions, here:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/4f1b84ac-b193-40e3-943a-f45d52e23685/cant-delete-extra-healthy-recovery-partitions-and-healthy-efi-system-partition?forum=w8itproinstall
-----------------------------

Its a similar question but different Machines the win 10 machine is my home pc which I want to add a mirror drive to

The other issue is a machine running server 2003 but is daily rebooting with event viewer stating that there is a bad block but that is not on the boot drive.
If the bad block is not on the boot drive would it still through BSOD and reboot.
It always happens at midnight?
Thus the question there is cloning

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