Comments on: Dynamic Disks and Recovery http://www.windowspcguy.net/?p=233 Looking through the Glass Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:04:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Walter Brown http://www.windowspcguy.net/?p=233&cpage=1#comment-13246 Walter Brown Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:08:29 +0000 http://www.vistapcguy.net/?p=233#comment-13246 I ran in to a similar scenario a couple years ago at a clients office, they had a Dell entry level server running SBS 2003, the server had mirrored drives but no raid controller, it used windows raid, which meant dynamic disks. i had built them a new server and wanted to forklift the SBS install to the new server, however the dynamic disks kept giving me fits trying to image them on the new servers raid 10. i spent hours upon days searching for a solution when i stumbled upon a little know gem of an imaging utility called r-drive image. this little gem could, amongst other things, image dynamic disks to basic disks, and it did it well. i was able to image the windows mirrored disks to a single basic disk and then in turn image the basic disk on to the raid 10 array without a hitch. Not only was this utility a life saver, the company R-Tools Technology makes only one version of r-drive image that works on all flavors of windows, including servers! and, it was reasonably priced, i dont remember exactly what i paid for it, but i believe it was around $40.00 I ran in to a similar scenario a couple years ago at a clients office, they had a Dell entry level server running SBS 2003, the server had mirrored drives but no raid controller, it used windows raid, which meant dynamic disks. i had built them a new server and wanted to forklift the SBS install to the new server, however the dynamic disks kept giving me fits trying to image them on the new servers raid 10. i spent hours upon days searching for a solution when i stumbled upon a little know gem of an imaging utility called r-drive image. this little gem could, amongst other things, image dynamic disks to basic disks, and it did it well. i was able to image the windows mirrored disks to a single basic disk and then in turn image the basic disk on to the raid 10 array without a hitch.

Not only was this utility a life saver, the company R-Tools Technology makes only one version of r-drive image that works on all flavors of windows, including servers! and, it was reasonably priced, i dont remember exactly what i paid for it, but i believe it was around $40.00

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