Re: Hard disk failure

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I assume you broke the mirror before shutting down, so the next step would
either be

Edit the boot.ini file to point at the shadow disk or
Recable the good drive so that it is drive 0.

You could also make a bootable diskette that points at the functional drive.


"Briank" <Briank@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1DB026B6-37B7-4384-B5D5-386727EF93B1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Howdy
> How do I boot Server 2003 after a hard drive failure which was part of a
> software raid mirror. Unfortunately I need to bring the server back up
> asap
> without replacing the faulty drive.
> Presently, Server 2003 attempts to boot, gets to the Windows Server 2003
> screen and then the computer restarts.
> Any help is appreciated.
> Thanks
> Brian


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