RE: Breaking and using a mirrored drive

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Trying to get on the corrupt drive can be tricky, if you boot from CD and try
to use the recovery console you may not even see (c:)...if you can...then try
to the fixmbr cmd or fixboot. What is a parallel install? Ive never heard of
that...What exactly happens when you boot face down in the dirt? Yes if you
had a mirror setup, just make the working HD SCSI ID 0 and boot from there.
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"DanaK" wrote:

> I've just received three good articles from another discussion site: articles
> 120227, 113977 and 167045. I'll read these and see what I can do with them.
>
> I do have another question for anyone that cares to venture an answer for
> it. If the C: partition is corrupted how is it that I can sign on to the
> Recovery Console with my usual administrator password and also navigate
> around in the \winnt folder? Does any of this sound like a virus to anyone?
>
> "DanaK" wrote:
>
> > Well, the worst has happened. My server went face down in the dirt and won't
> > get up again. Using the recovery methods available in Windows Setup tells me
> > that the Fast Recovery method is not going to work. Trying to make a
> > parallel installation in the old C: partition tells me that the partition is
> > corrupt in some way even though the disk scanning utilities from Dell say the
> > drive is just fine.
> >
> > Can anyone point me to a Knowledge Base article that gives you step-by-step
> > proceedure to using the mirrored drive that I've set up on my server? Is it
> > as simple as unplugging the old first drive and telling the SCSI controller
> > to boot off of the second drive? This is my last hope of getting the old
> > system back, otherwise it's delete and recreate the old partition.
> >
> > Thanks.
.

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