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10-19-2018 07:50 AM
I am having problems booting my HPz620 (which is listed in another post)
meanwhile I am concerned about the data held on the HDD and wanted some advice about backing up.
The computer contains 2 x 1TB boot drive which is mirrored.
is it ok to remove one of these mirrored drives and plug it into an equivalent HP machine to make a copy from it?
I have no experience with manually backing up mirrored drives (especially a boot drive)
thanks
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10-19-2018 08:22 AM
Yes we have had to do the same thing with desktop/server drives and laptop drives.
Move it to another system then copy and paste all you want.
REO
10-19-2018 08:12 AM
Do you want to just back-up the DATA or do you want to make a bootable image???
Do you have Physically Identical Drives or do you have Logical Drives???
REO
10-19-2018 08:16 AM
@REO51ST wrote:
Do you want to just back-up the DATA or do you want to make a bootable image???
Do you have Physically Identical Drives or do you have Logical Drives???
REO
Hi REO
Yes physically identical drives, I don't care about the bootable image, simply there is about 300GB of data on the desktop that I would like to backup.
Can I safely move one of these drives to another machine? for the purposes of copying the data?
Thanks
10-19-2018 08:22 AM
Yes we have had to do the same thing with desktop/server drives and laptop drives.
Move it to another system then copy and paste all you want.
REO