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Ack! Damn you RAID!

TDMTDM Registered User regular
edited January 2007 in Games and Technology
So a hard drive in my RAID 1 died; I have to admit it was pretty cool to see my setup saved. Anyways I bought another hard drive from Newegg and installed it but it turns out the new drive is 2 gigs smaller (figures). The RAID won't let me rebuild because the new drive is smaller.

Any ideas how I can get this setup to work? I'm thinking about using a ghost program to copy the contents from the larger drive to the smaller drive but I don't want to buy software just for this and the program would have to know what to do with drives of different sizes.

Lil help please?

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  • GertBeefGertBeef Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Hmm, you could use some petitioning software and make an extra 2gb drive on your old disk? That would knock off the 2 GB and maybe let you run the raid.

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  • Captain KCaptain K Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    To be honest, I'd just try to return the drive to Newegg. They're pretty fucking cool with customer service; if you just tell them you made a mistake and you want to trade up to something slightly larger, they'll probably just ask you to cover shipping.

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  • TDMTDM Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Solution found!!!!!

    The trick was to use Western Digital's free "ghosting" utility to copy the larger hard drive to the smaller one (larger one wasn't full). Then I made the smaller drive the primary in a new RAID 1 setup and rewrote the larger one.

    RAID is funcitonal again and the whole ordeal was rather painless. Thanks to the 2 above for their help.

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