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Originally Posted by blue68f100
It is always better to do a backup, whe you start playing with disks. After you have backed everything up: MARK YOU ORIGINAL HD's AS M/S OR FT/BK. Keep the master as a OS keeper if you like.
Check you drive configuration. Singe disk can be Any raid set, the only indication would be usable space. If you are showing over 20 gig usable you are proably raid 0, Which means there is nothing you can do but to backit up before upgrading. The process I would use would be to break the set to JBOD. reboot the server. Then change the drives to raid 1, reboot and let it build the set. approx 2 hrs.
On a 2000 the drives should be in a master/slave config. By looking at the HW & BIOS you have a version 2. The master is the FT disk, end of cable. So fail the slave, Back drive. Install your new disk and reboot. The snap should format and install the OS on it. Check you drives status from the disk secton. Once the Disk ligh has gone out. You will be ready to fail the master. and do the same process again. Your OS will support hd >137gig. If you end up with a broken mirror, simply change back to JBOD, then back to RAID1.
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OK; here's yet another stupid question.. Whats JBOD? I have found it in many posts dealing with drive statistics, but dont know what it means or how I would change back to it if things get dicey?
Thanks, again, Wayne
Wayne