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→Creating a Mirrored (RAID 1) Volume from the Command Prompt
For the purposes of this tutorial we will be creating a mirrored volume based on a set consisting of disks 1 and 2. The mirrored volume is created by first creating a simple volume on the first disk and then adding a second disk to the mirrored set.
The first volume is created using the ''create volume'' command combined with the ''disk='' directive. The size of the volume may also be specified using the ''size='' directive. Omission of the ''size='' option will cause diskpart to create volume such that it is which occupies all the size of availabel space on the smallest designated disk in the mirrored set. For example:
<pre>DISKPART>create volume simple disk=1</pre> Having created the first volume on disk 1 the next step is to add the mirror volume on disk 2. this This is achieved using the ''add'' command as follows:
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