Ed and Tony have the best solution, but for your info, if you dig into the options in Ghost you can tell it to ignore bad sectors and continue ghosting.
-Steve > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 11:42 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Mirroring Mail Store Volume > > > Hello All, > > I hope it's okay to ask this here, because wanting to mirror > my Exchange > Store drive is the root of me wanting to do this... and I am sure you > experienced Admins have seen lots of unique "drive related" > issues over > the years. > > I know for a fact, that my store drive (which also happens to > be my boot > volume) has some bad blocks on there. Yet, when I run a > CheckDisk on it > - it doesn't want to flag them, and mark them unusable. > > Since I know that the drive may be in trouble, I immediately > put another > drive in the system, so I can mirror the "potentially failing" drive - > and then make the freshly mirrored drive primary (taking out the > original drive altogether when the process is finished). > > For some reason, if you attempt to mirror a drive with bad blocks, it > pukes when it comes upon those blocks - rather than skipping over and > proceeding. I suppose I can understand this, because of the Mirroring > process wanting to create an *exact* image of the master drive. > > What the heck can I do, in order to get this drive - mirrored > to another > one? Ghost does not work - because I think these bad blocks > are causing > problems too. I am avoiding the process of backing up, and > restoring my > system - to a fresh install. I don't have the luxury of all that > downtime, etc. > > I would deeply appreciate anything offered to help remedy > this problem. > > Thanks in advance, > > Mike > > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Web Interface: > http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&t ext_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
