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Basic Disk Mirror ProblemI have a server that the OS is on a mirror set consisting of two basic SCSI
disks. This mirror was set up back when the machine was running NT4 Server and was upgraded to Win2k Server. The mirror set was never upgraded to use dynamic disks. One of the disks failed, of course the one that contained the boot (utility) partition. I replaced it with another drive and the mirror rebuilt itself. Now I have a good mirror of the OS but no boot partition. I need to make the OS partition active and somehow get the MBR and boot files recognized on there. I am currently booting the server with a floppy until i get this figured out. What procedure should i follow to get this accomplished? I take it you are doing software mirroring.
If the system is working from a boot diskette I will take this as your partitioning is OK and all you need is the mbr which is not mirrored. Boot the w2K cd via the bios and go into recovery console. Run the utilities fixmbr and fixboot. Exit reboot with no floppy and you should be fine. I tried logging into the console but it would not accept the administrator
password. It should just be the normal domain administrator account if it is a domain controller machine, correct? Show quoteHide quote "Joshua Bolton" wrote: > I take it you are doing software mirroring. > > If the system is working from a boot diskette I will take this as your > partitioning is OK and all you need is the mbr which is not mirrored. > > Boot the w2K cd via the bios and go into recovery console. Run the > utilities fixmbr and fixboot. Exit reboot with no floppy and you should be > fine. I Was finally able to log in to the console, it was an older admin password.
I ran the fixmbr and fixboot utilities and it still will not boot to that partition without the floppy. I checked and all of the files are on the partition (ntldr, ntdetect, boot.ini). Is this because that partition is mirrored between the two basic disks and has never been marked as active? If so, how do i do that now without losing anything? Show quoteHide quote "Joshua Bolton" wrote: > I take it you are doing software mirroring. > > If the system is working from a boot diskette I will take this as your > partitioning is OK and all you need is the mbr which is not mirrored. > > Boot the w2K cd via the bios and go into recovery console. Run the > utilities fixmbr and fixboot. Exit reboot with no floppy and you should be > fine. Anyone?
Show quoteHide quote "Marty S" wrote: > I have a server that the OS is on a mirror set consisting of two basic SCSI > disks. This mirror was set up back when the machine was running NT4 Server > and was upgraded to Win2k Server. The mirror set was never upgraded to use > dynamic disks. One of the disks failed, of course the one that contained the > boot (utility) partition. I replaced it with another drive and the mirror > rebuilt itself. Now I have a good mirror of the OS but no boot partition. I > need to make the OS partition active and somehow get the MBR and boot files > recognized on there. I am currently booting the server with a floppy until i > get this figured out. What procedure should i follow to get this > accomplished? 
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