Rebuilding RAID1 with new hard drive

Hi, I have important data on a hard drive that I wish to use as a RAID1 (mirroring)

I have found a 2nd hard drive to use with the array, my question is how do I get the raid to work, the drive contains xp startup data aswell as important stuff and the array needs to boot.

when i create the raid1 with both hdd's it doesnt boot into windows when i choose "nVidia Raid..." to boot from. I presume it cant find data and needs to copy the data from the hdd to the new one.

how the heck do i do this? i have nvidia raid for this

thanks

 

It's a fake raid (driver based) there might be an option to re-build the raid from the raid's firmware. but alot of the time u rebuild fake raid's from within windows, by downloading the software from your raid controller manufacturers website. in your case nvidia.com and it just takes you through the process of rebuilding.

Also the possibility why it won't boot is because you might not have the raid drivers installed on the OS your using. so the OS can't send driver commands to the device.

try enabling raid controller in the bios but don't add your OS hard disk to a raid. just boot from the OS as a single disk then once in windows the OS will detect the raid controller and then you can install the drivers it need's for the raid controller. Once you've installed the drivers reboot your pc and then add the two disks back into raid 1 and then see if it boots into windows. if it does you can then use the software provided from nvidia to rebuild your raid.

 

This is all wrong.
You do not keep the system on the same RAID where the data is. And you cannot rebuild a RAID that is not been built! Also RAID with Windows is not seriously. Fake RAID is not seriously too. Make a software RAID! And don't forget that the old data on both drives will be lost. Or even better solution - use one drive without any RAID and from time to time use some backup utility that copies the data to the other drive.

 

yea your correct, my bad didnt relise he didnt have a raid in the first place.

 

thanks, is there a program that will create the raid1 without deleting data, i read somewhere that windows will copy the files to the new hdd but havent the foggiest how to do it

 

You red some nonsense. Nowadays internet is full of BS.
Forget tha raid. Raid is for storing data that changes each day. Your pictures (or family pr0n) will not change so much. Just copy the changed (date or size) files to the other HDD a couple of times per month.