bad sector on server drive -- not vortech

[bootNumlock]

hey, gang... have a small sbs 2003 box set up at the studio for our dev hosting and i am getting system notifications of a bad sector...

is it possible to mirror this drive to another and have the machine running off the new drive?

if so, how would i go about doing this. I know there are some resellers here (or vortech techs even) that have been down this road before and could lend their experience and advice.

Thanks in advance for any help.

btw... i am way over my head in managing a server (not to mention 3 (one iis and two sql boxes) so treat me like i know nothing

[Brangwyn]

Add a new drive (preferably the same size as current failing one), then under Disk Management add it as a mirror to the primary system drive, let it mirror then you should be ok to either take out the failing drive and change the mirror drive to be the boot or simply leave it there for permanent redundancy.

Windows does have issues with mirrors and booting of the second drive it's not automatic failover .. I haven't done it for a while personally so the above is just a guideline.

Oh and if in doubt, the Windows Help is actually quite good, just do a search for disk mirror.

[bootNumlock]

thanks B -- you are the best! I will give it a shot early this week if not tomorrow...

i do want to see if i get the bad sector alert again this morning on the server report.

[SRW]

Just as a FYI:
About 4 months ago I started seeing NTFS bad sector errors on my own SBS 2003 SP1 box. Replaced the boot drive, tested the drive etc. and it would seem OK for a while and then errors came back.
Finally got so bad I replaced the box with a new Dell box.. When I got around to testing the hardware some more I found a bad RAM module.!! Took that out and the NTFS errors disappeared and the box is stabe.....
http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp

SRW