Bad drive/s w2k server

[K A Hall]

I have a win2k server with RAID 1 array. The boot drive or maybe both drives, I have determined needs to be replaced after 6 years. (bad sectors keeps screwing up the MFT when defrag or any other disk maintenance is performed and I keep getting the error in even viewer “The file system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run the chkdsk utility on the volume C:”) I have run chkdsk off of a boot disk I obtained at bootdisk.com to get the thing to boot up the 2 times when I have gotten a blue screen when I either rebooted or it just crashed by itself.

I want to replace both disks without having to reload windows and deal with all the settings and TS licensing issues. I can take the server off line at night so keeping it up while servicing is not an issue. I am thinking copying both drives, or just one of them (not sure if I need to copy both) is the best way to go but I am not sure which disk copy utility would be best to use. The server is up and running for now and I have turned off any services that may check the disk and crash the server but I need to get on this as soon as I figure out the best way to proceed. Since the RAID array is just a mirrored drive situation should I not be able to just replace the bad drive and copy the contents of the 2nd drive to the new one and then just replace the mirrored drive after? I do not think I would be able to find a drive the exact same size if this is going to be a problem either since it is too old, but I am not sure if that even matters.
Any recommendations, links or advice are appreciated.

[glc]

You can try the clone drive function in Acronis True Image, that will be your best shot. You will have to boot with the CD as the Windows-based program is not compatible with W2K Server, only Pro. If the drive is corrupt, it won't clone.

You can TRY running Spinrite on your array - it may get it working well enough to get a good clone.

Off topic - where the heck have YOU been - haven't seen you around here in *years*! I live in your neck of the woods now.

[K A Hall]

Hey glc, you are correct. It has been years. I have just been doing other things, kind of got sick of the pc world so I quit coming by. I still work with them all the time but I am sick of them by the end of the day. But I knew I would need to come back eventually and I was right. And yeah you are very close to me know, you almost made it to the BIG city...;-) just a few more clicks east and you are there.

I am going to try some version of ghost that they say will work. I already bought it so I got to at least try it. If that does not fly I am on to your suggestion. I will try to get back with an update.

Thanks

[K A Hall]

I have determined that it is actually the 2nd hard drive, the mirrored one that is bad. I would like to replace both drives. I know I can pop a new drive in and rebuild the array but I will loose the left over space since I doubt I can find new drives the same size.

Is there a way to replace the failed drive with a larger one and utilize the whole drive. I would like to replace them both with larger drives if that is possible, but all the information I am finding does not cover this scenario and only say that you if replace a failed drive in a RAID 1 you only get the space equivalent to the smaller drive. There has to be a way around this.
Right?

The Ghost software is useful but not really for the task at hand. I will use it for other things since the documentation I finally found says it cannot or at least they do not support ghosting a Terminal Server.

[glc]

Clone the good drive to a temporary drive, then replace both drives, set up the mirror, then clone it back.