Re: !how to clone harddisk without partition or stripping

From: Rabid_Roach (no@spam.all)
Date: 03/12/03


From: "Rabid_Roach" <no@spam.all>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 16:11:13 -0500


I agree, I was told by someone with much more experiance them me with RAID

"In RAID 0, if one disk fails, the whole stripe set becomes useless and all
your data on all the disks that were in that 'stripe set' is lost unless you
have a backup.

"Steven L Umbach" <n9rou@attbi.com> wrote in message
news:Y4Jba.54080$L1.9692@sccrnsc02...
     AFAIK when you lose a disk in raid 0 , you lose everything because
there is no parity for fault tolerance. Hope you backed up the whole
et. --- Steve

<it2000china@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:3e6f4743@news.starhub.net.sg...
> I have 2 harddisk running on raid 0 (data stripping), one harddisk fail, I
want to clone the good harddisk to a new HD, any software can do that,
Norton ghost can clone those harddisk with partition, but can't do anything
with this harddisk, I am thinking to copy all sectors to another hd,
>
> anyone can help will be highly appreciately.
>
> thanks
>
>



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