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From: Max Waterman <davidmaxwaterman+gmane@fastmail.co.uk>
Subject: Re: moving failing system disk to 2xnew RAID1
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 16:02:01 +0800
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Andy Smith wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 09:27:28AM +0800, Max Waterman wrote:
>> Max Waterman wrote:
>>> What would the procedure be for moving the data off my (single) Maxtor 
>>> onto a RAID1 of 2 WD800JBs?
>>>
>>> Max.
>> Well, I didn't get a response to this question :|
> 
> All three disks are in the same machine?  If so, create the RAID 1
> and then copy the files over onto it..  Sorry this seems too simple
> so I probably have misunderstood the question.

Maybe, maybe not...

The gotcha, in my mind, is that this is the boot disk (to all intents 
and purposes, the only disk in the machine).

But maybe it's still simple?

Max.