Microsoft KB Archive/293420

= Cannot Create a Mirrored Volume in Windows 2000 Professional =

Article ID: 293420

Article Last Modified on 10/31/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Edition

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This article was previously published under Q293420



SUMMARY
In the Disk Management snap-in, if you right-click a simple volume on a dynamic disk, the Add Mirror option is unavailable; you cannot create a software mirror in Windows 2000 Professional.



MORE INFORMATION
Creating a fault-tolerant (FT) sets, such as a mirrored set or a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) Level 5 (also known as striped with parity) volume, is not available on computers running Windows 2000 Professional. This option is available only in Windows 2000 Server products. However, you can use a computer that is running Windows 2000 Professional to create mirrored volumes on a remote computer that is running Windows 2000 Server.

For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

235264 Imported Volume Is Displayed with Failed Status

Additional query words: mirror volume mmc partition dynamic fault tolerant striped set

Keywords: kbinfo KB293420

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