Re: Ack! Power-outage, corrupted SATA Mirror
- From: "Pegasus \(MVP\)" <I.can@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 09:56:51 +1000
"Xandros" <Xandros@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi all,it
I'm just looking for a bit of insight into a problem that I am currently
facing...
A couple of days ago, we had a power outage and an LCS test server (Server
2003)running an SATA RAID1 (not on the UPS) came down hard. Upon booting
up, it would get through POST and just as it started to show the blinkingany
cursor at the top left of the screen, it would just go black and not go
further. I figured that the server must have been in the middle ofwriting
data to the mirrrored drive when it came down and corrupted the seconddrive.
I disconnected one drive and rebooted, hoping that it would be able toboot
up off of just one drive... I got the customary notification that WindowsOf
had not shut down properly and that it would check the drive for errors.
course it did and when the drive got to the logon screen, an lsass.exesystem
error popped up and indicated the following:boot
"Security Accounts Manager initialization failed because of the follow
error: A device attached to the system is not functioning. Error status:
0xc0000001. Please click ok to shutdown this system and reboot into safe
mode, check the event log for more detailed information"
When I go into safe mode, I get the exact same error and have no option
to acknowledge the error and reboot. I've researched this error and itable
appears that the SAM no longer contains the credentials in order to be
to authenticate a logon to the server, therefore a corrupt registry?possible
When I try to boot off of the other drive, I get the following error:
"Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
\Windows\system32\config\system"
Yet another indication of a corrupt registry?
Of course there is no backup of the System State data, so it's not
to carry through with the recovery procedures as laid out by Microsoft...or
is there a way?
Is it possible that the information is still recoverable? What if I
installed another OS on an IDE drive? Would it be possible to navigate
through to where this information is located, save it and then try to do
recover the SAM as described in the following link?
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=316751
Which of course appears to only apply to WindowsXP Pro and 2000...
I suspect that I am facing a re-install, however any helpful tips would be
greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
I would disconnect the main disk and attempt to boot off
a floppy boot disk with the mirror hard disk:
- Format a floppy disk on some other Win2000/XP PC.
Don't do it on a Win9x PC - it won't work.
- Copy these files from the \i386 folder of your Server CD to A:\
ntldr
ntdetect.com
- Copy c:\boot.ini to the floppy disk.
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