Re: No boot on win2k3 mirror

From: Mike Schuler (maxmike_at_imag.net)
Date: 05/18/04 

Date: 18 May 2004 08:40:16 -0700

Bjorn Landemoo <mvp2.REMOVE@landemoo.com> wrote in message news:<205ia0tvg147fp3cpla3uf3v2tpde2p42e@4ax.com>...
> You might have a problem in that your disk 0 has a state of dynamic
> foreign. I am not really clear over why this has happened.

Bjorn,
This condition is probably explained by the fact that I installed
recovery console while playing with the mirror disk while disk 0 was
offline. A reference to the article you mentioned in the help would
have prevented this gaffe.

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