Create new MBR

9 Aug 2005 2:08 PM

Joel Kauffman

We have a Windows 2000 server that had mirrored hard drives. The main hard
drive crashed and I was able to create a boot floppy and get booted off the
second hard drive. Now that I have replaced the drive I can't get the server
to boot off of the hard drive I still have to use floppy. What do I need to
do to boot back off of the hard drive.

Thanks for your help!

Joel Kauffman

9 Aug 2005 8:16 PM

philo

Joel Kauffman wrote:

> We have a Windows 2000 server that had mirrored hard drives. The main hard
> drive crashed and I was able to create a boot floppy and get booted off the
> second hard drive. Now that I have replaced the drive I can't get the server
> to boot off of the hard drive I still have to use floppy. What do I need to
> do to boot back off of the hard drive.
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Joel Kauffman

boot from your cd
and from the repair console, issue the command: fixmbr

it may also be necessary to issue the command: fixboot

10 Aug 2005 3:11 PM

George Hester

Yes I just got a Windows 95 start up disk off the net and ran fixmbr. I had
to also make a DOS partition on it and set it as Active. Then the Windows
2000 installed on C on the primary disk. The Primary disk cannot have a
boot sector on it for this to work.

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George Hester
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> Joel Kauffman wrote:
> > We have a Windows 2000 server that had mirrored hard drives. The main
hard
> > drive crashed and I was able to create a boot floppy and get booted off
the
> > second hard drive. Now that I have replaced the drive I can't get the
server
> > to boot off of the hard drive I still have to use floppy. What do I
need to
> > do to boot back off of the hard drive.
> >
> > Thanks for your help!
> >
> > Joel Kauffman
>
>
>
> boot from your cd
> and from the repair console, issue the command: fixmbr
>
> it may also be necessary to issue the command: fixboot

10 Aug 2005 12:37 AM

lukesh

Hi,
Now, when u have replaced the old hard drive with the new drive, did u
recreate the mirror? Can you list your boot.ini?

Lukesh

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"Joel Kauffman" wrote:

> We have a Windows 2000 server that had mirrored hard drives. The main hard
> drive crashed and I was able to create a boot floppy and get booted off the
> second hard drive. Now that I have replaced the drive I can't get the server
> to boot off of the hard drive I still have to use floppy. What do I need to
> do to boot back off of the hard drive.
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Joel Kauffman