Promise Technology TX4000 user manual Adding Fault Tolerance to an Existing Drive

Chapter 3: FastBuild Configuration Utility

Adding Fault Tolerance to an Existing Drive

FastTrak TX4000 will create a mirrored array using an existing system drive with data. You must assign the existing drive and another drive of same or larger capacity to the Mirroring array. The BIOS will send the existing data to the new blank drive.

Warning

Backup any necessary data before proceeding. Failure to follow this accepted PC practice could result in data loss.

Warning

If you wish to include your current bootable drive using the Windows NT 4.x, 2000, XP, Server 2003, ME or 98 operating system as part of a bootable Mirrored (RAID 1) array on your FastTrak TX4000, You MUST install the driver software while the bootable drive is still attached to your existing hard drive controller. See Chapter 4.

1.Assign the drives to a Mirroring array.

2.Press Ctrl-Y to Save your selection. The window below will appear.

Do you want the disk image to be duplicated to another? (Yes/No) Y - Create and Duplicate

N - Create Only

Note

Gigabyte Boundary is automatically disabled when creating a mirrored array (RAID 1) from an existing drive (versus using two brand new drives). This protects the existing drive’s partition table in order to maintain data integrity.

3.Press Y for the Create and Duplicate option. The window below will appear asking you to select the Source drive to use. FastBuild will copy all data from the Source drive to the Target drive.

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