On Friday my primary Microsoft Active Directory Server hard drive failed. In our planning we did not set up the server with RAID on the OS Hard Drive. Now I am stuck loading the system up from scratch.
In planning for the rebuild I went ahead and purchased two identical hard drives so that we would not have a crash of our entire network should the hard drive fail again. Microsoft Windows Server 2003 includes the ability to set-up free software RAID. This should prevent a total failure should another hard drive fail.
The best tutorial that I have found on-line for setting this up can be found here: