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    Lightbulb Drive Mirroring/NT Server 4.0/SP6a

    Have an NT Server Box w/ two four gig IDE hard drives. When I go to Disk Administrator, it allows me to create/delete partions, format, assign drive letters, but will NOT let me mirror my two drives (after selecting both partions and/or drives using "establish mirror" under Fault Tolerence). Drive zero has 2 partitions: both are 2055mb; Drive 1 has 2 partitions as well but are slightly larger: 2063mb.

    Why can't I establish a mirror on the two drives?

    HELP!!

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    Mirroring must be done with NTFS.
    To each his/her own.

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    The target partition must be unformatted and of equal or greater size than the source partition.
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    Use Partition Magic to "de-NTFSify" your partitions and then establish mirroring.
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    CinderElmo:

    that's exactly what I DIDN'T do...lol...I was attempting to mirror the two disks AFTER I'd formatted with NTFS. Thanks for the help!!

    Thank you to all whom replied!!

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    LOL! Done that myself! <IMG SRC="smilies/cool.gif" border="0">

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