Re: Help! Mirror boots only from floppy

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From: TakeFlight (noway_at_dot.com)
Date: 01/24/05 

Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 10:50:02 -0600

SCSI drive. Unplugged the power to the original drive, so this one's the
only one active. Tried fiddling with the jumper but it doesn't seem to
matter.

"Merv Porter [SBS-MVP]" <mwport@no_spam_hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> SCSI or IDE? If SCSI, did you reset the jumper on the new drive to SCSI
0?
>
> --
> Merv Porter [SBS MVP]
> ===================================
>
> "TakeFlight" <noway@dot.com> wrote in message
> news:mLYId.2177$HZ.1460@okepread07...
> > Did that. Still no dice.
> >
> > "Merv Porter [SBS-MVP]" <mwport@no_spam_hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:uTKGSEQAFHA.3236@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> > > MBR not written to shadow disk unless you first create a small
partition
> > on
> > > it, format it NTFS and then delete it.
> > >
> > > Why can't I use the other disk of the mirror set to boot Windows NT
> > > http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/14673/14673.html
> > >
> > > --
> > > Merv Porter [SBS MVP]
> > > ===================================
> > > "TakeFlight" <noway@dot.com> wrote in message
> > > news:rAEId.1761$HZ.134@okepread07...
> > > > Trying to move a functioning SBS 2000 onto a new (larger) hard
drive.
> > No
> > > > problem, right? Just insert the new drive and build a mirror from
> Disk
> > > > Manager. Then power down, remove the power cable from the original
> > drive
> > > > and power up. No boot.
> > > >
> > > > If I copy the boot files onto a floppy, the drive boots fine. I've
> > > verified
> > > > that the files are indeed present on the hard drive, and the
floppy's
> > > > boot.ini actually works unaltered.
> > > >
> > > > What am I missing? If it boots from the floppy, boot.ini unaltered,
> it
> > > > should be something wrong with the MBR, no?
> > > >
> > > > (unusual side note: booting from CD into the Recovery Console shows
> > winnt
> > > as
> > > > being drive "F" instead of "C" like I would have thought. Running
> > fixboot
> > > > and fixmbr has no effect. Booting into Windows from the floppy and
> > > looking
> > > > at Disk Mgr shows "C" and "E" like they should be, and reports no
> > > problems.)
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for any insight...this problem is getting old fast.
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

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