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Cloning Server 2008 R2 Foundation 250Gb HDD into one another with 500Gb?

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Hi, good morning, on Brazil time.

I have a Server 2008 R2 Foundation installed under HP Proliant ML110 G6 and until last Friday the scenario of disk management was this:

Disk 0: BKP of SISREV (our ERP);

Disk 1: 465Gb Dynamic | Mirrored with disk 2 (but both disks had no data, their emprty)

Disk 2: 465Gb Dynamic | Mirrored with disk 1

Disk 3: 250Gb for 100Mb System reserved | C: with 135,13 Gb | M: 97,65 Gb for data share - Dynamic disk.

Just to mention I've inherit this scenario from earlier support team.

And then I realize that Disk 3 have S.M.A.R.T. alert and people, a while ago, claiming slowness using folder shares and etc...

Then my first reaction was: "let's clone this disk while it's still booting".

I then used Macrium Reflect to copy dynamic volumes from disk 3 into disk 2.

The process did not finished properly. Without knowing I've broke the mirrored disks (that still empty), and ran into a big mess.

Reflect change the partitions ID, I've terminated with HDD showing up error 0xc000000e that boot device was inacessible.

After many work around with diskpart, bootbcd and others and a little web search I've restored the access and boot to the default system disk 3 (250Gb).

Well, for now my question is: I still have S.M.A.R.T. alerts on this HDD and this server holds information about a company since 2009. I wouldn't like to loose this.

Is there a way to clone this actual disk into another one of 465Gb WITHOUT LOSING OR CRAPPING THE EXISTING DATA, TABLE INFORMATION AND ON AND ON...???

A help would be appreciated.


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