OK I get the message, That is kinda what I expected so I planned to use the
Other 2 drives as backups once I got my system running smoothly.

So how can I get all my programs that were installed on the F: drive to run
on my mirror drive and the C: drive.
--
Thanks in advance,
Realtor John


"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:

> DL wrote:
>
> > A mirror raid is not an altenative to a backup.
>
>
> Absolutely right. Mirroring is used to provide reduncancy in a situation
> where downtime can't be tolerated. Backup is still required to provent loss
> of data in situations where both the original and mirror are lost
> simultaneously.
>
> For the average user (certainly almost every home user) mirroring not only
> isn't required, it isn't even a good idea.. It provides a false sense of
> security, and suffers from the same weaknesses as backup to a non-removable
> hard drive--it leaves you susceptible to simultaneous loss of the original
> and backup to many of the most common dangers: severe power glitches, nearby
> lightning strikes, virus attacks, even theft of the computer.
>
>
> --
> Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
> Please reply to the newsgroup
>
>
> > Depending on the raid controler, if a hd fails the system may not
> > report which hd has failed, and it may go down. It also maybe that
> > you cannot reboot untill you split the raid and disconnect the failed
> > HD, once you have determined which HD has failed.
> > After experiencing many problems with onboard raid, as supplied on
> > many mobos, I purchased a reasonably high end raid card ($380) I know
> > this unit will show which HD has a problem and will continue running
> > the sys when a HD fails. I also added a third hot swap HD which the
> > card will automatically use to rebuild if one fails.
> > PS I still have onsite/offsite backups
> >
> > "RealtorJohn" <MSnewsgroup@pamgrice.com> wrote in message
> > news:21C1C273-A929-4D26-8F95-9FD672D63234@microsoft.com...
> >> Let me straighten out any misconceptions. All of the current drives
> >> have only been installed on this machine.
> >>
> >> I had a faulty HD from which no data coiuld be retreived, (sent to a
> >> recovery company), in the mean time I installed a SG 160GB and
> >> installed XP and reloaded most of my programs. The damaged HD was
> >> under warrenty so
> >> WD sent me a refurbished HD that was the same model and size of the
> >> old one. I was intending to use the WD dirive strictly as backup for
> >> data, I didn't want to loose all of my data again.
> >>
> >> After about 3 weeks the SG 160GB XP installation started failing and
> >> I couldn't get it to repair. I then installed XP on the refurbished
> >> WD drive and reinstalled the HW and SW again.
> >>
> >> In the meantime I investigated using a RAID configuration with a
> >> mirror solution to try to avoid more down time, I depend on my
> >> computer everyday I can't afford to have it unusable, it needs to be
> >> available 100% of the time. So I came up with the brilliant idea of
> >> multiple boots.
> >>
> >> My idea was to use the mirror drive as the main boot, and have one
> >> on each of the other drives, just in case.
> >>
> >> Most of my programs had been installed on the F: drive, of couse it
> >> was the C: drive at the time. No fear I can use Norton Windoctor to
> >> change any designations to whatever they need to be changed to. And
> >> no there has not been a clean install on the F: drive. I read DL's
> >> responce and I will try to repair the XP installation before I
> >> proceed any further.
> >>
> >> I understand about having progams on a seperate partition or disk is
> >> not of much value now. It seems to me that W95 would reinstall and
> >> any programs on your HD would automatically be registered and
> >> installed for use. What a crime that XP doesn't work that way.
> >>
> >> Thank you both, DL and Ken. I'll let you know how I make out.
> >> --
> >> Thanks in advance,
> >> Realtor John
> >>
> >>
> >> "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:
> >>
> >>> RealtorJohn wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I had a XP crash from which I couln't recover. I installed into my
> >>>> home built 2 80 GB SG drives and set them up as a RAID 1. I still
> >>>> have the drive with all of my programs that had been loaded onto
> >>>> it, XP just doesn't work. I am using PnP to put all of my hardware
> >>>> back into the new RAID 1 drive (E setup.
> >>>> My set up is:
> >>>> ASUS P4C800 Deluxe MB
> >>>> 1GB RAM
> >>>> Built in USB ports (4 are activated)
> >>>> Built in Network connection (RJ45 Port)
> >>>> Built in Sound using Sound MAx software.
> >>>> Uses Promise Fst Trak 378 Driver for the RAID
> >>>> I have also make the system a multiple boot with an XP system on
> >>>> C:, E:, & F: C: is SG 160GB
> >>>> D: is a 22GB portion of C:
> >>>> E: is 2 SG 80 GB Raid 1 Mirrorred drives (I've had 2 crashes in 6
> >>>> months) F:is a WD 120GB a rebuilt replacement for the the original
> >>>> failure.
> >>>>
> >>>> F: boot does not work and that is the disk with all of the
> >>>> installed HW & SW
> >>>>
> >>>> Certainly there must be a way to have the progams already installed
> >>>> on F: to act as if they have been installed on the E: and D: drives
> >>>> without actually installing them.
> >>>>
> >>>> I hope someone can tell me how to do this. It is most distressing
> >>>> to be required to reinstall about 50 (including utilities)
> >>>> programs.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Are you saying that you have installed programs on F: and that these
> >>> programs had been installed under Windows XP, but Windows XP has
> >>> since been cleanly reinstalled?
> >>>
> >>> Sorry, but there is no way to use those installed programs, and
> >>> they have to be reinstalled from scratch. Installed programs (all
> >>> but the very occasionl tiny program) have many components and
> >>> references all over the operating system (in the registry and
> >>> elsewhere).When you reinstalled Windows, all of this was lost.
> >>>
> >>> This is the main reason why having a separate drive or partition for
> >>> installed programs isn't really a useful thing to do.
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
> >>> Please reply to the newsgroup
>
>
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