Re: testing mirrored drives on windows 2003

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"anoni" <anoni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I created a mirror with two ide drives (on one cable - setup one drive as
> master and another as slave by jumpers) on windows 2003. I followed the MS
> recommendations. I created the mirror without errors. But when I tested
> buy
> disconnected the master and setup the slave drive to master and tried the
> bootup. It could not bootup from the second drive (I change the jumper
> from
> slave to master when I tried). It showed black screen with a prompt on top
> of
> the left upper screen.
>
> Anything I am missing. Again I followed the MS doc to do the setup and
> test.
>
> Thanks

You may have to edit the boot.ini file. See the following link for details.
The link is about NT but I think it applies.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;141702

Kerry


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