Re: can't boot from mirrored boot drive

You are trying to boot on the second partition on the first hard disk, is that where the installation resides?

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)
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John

billd wrote:

Hi,

Recently, my mirrored drive in my 2K3 server died. I took the drive out, removed the mirror, but new drive in, replaced the mirror. It says it is healthing and the mirror is fine. However, if I try to boot from the mirrored drive, it fails with the error:

windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
<windows root>\system32ntoskrnl.exe

please reinstall a copy of the above file.

Now that would normally say to me that the boot.ini is incorrect, but it looks right to me:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Windows Server 2003 for Small Business Server" /noexecute=optout /fastdetect

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Boot Mirror C: - secondary plex" /noexecute=optout /fastdetect

the disks are mirrored, so the path to windows should be correct yes? They are sata drives, drive 0 and drive 1 on the main system board's controller. I was able to format the drive correctly etc before I made the mirror> I can look at properties of the disk in disk manager - everything seems sweet until I try and boot the secondary. There are three partitions on rdisk(0) 102MB EISA Configuration) C: 12GB NTFS (Healthy System) and Logs (G:) 62.40 GB NTFS Healthy

rdisk(1) only has 2 partitions, the C: and G: which are mirrored and healthy. When I set up the mirror, it did not give me the opportunity to mirror the EISA Configuration.

Anyway, it would appear that I am running on empty to coin a phrase because if my first drive fails, it looks as though I would not be able to boot the mirror drive. How can I see what the state of that drive is? Do I need to break the mirror and unplug the rdsk(0) and see if it will boot? What is the best procedure for this.

Thanks



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