Re: Lost quorum

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My apologies...right newsgroup, wrong post. :)

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Ryan Sokolowski
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"Mike B" <MikeB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Cluster service won't start on either node, after I added a new drive .
> Think it's due to signature getting lost. What utility should I use to
> reset the signature on the disk. I can't find dumpcfg anywhere, and the
> new
> tools don't seem to work (2003 resourcekit) dmdiag and clusterrecovery. I
> am
> tryin g to restart node w/o cludisk.sys driver and cluster service now to
> see
> if it can see the drives at leest. One other problem is logical disk
> manager
> (disk config tool) won't start up.


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