RE: Windows 2003 Mirror and Boot Partition

Hello,

Thank you for using newsgroup!

For your complex hardware disk situation, I cannot reproduce your scenario.
I am not sure if the following article might be helpful:
323432: How to mirror the system and boot partition (RAID1) in Windows
Server 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/323432/en-us

Thanks & Regards,

Ken Zhao

Microsoft Online Support
Microsoft Global Technical Support Center

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| I have managed to get rid of the old 18GB drives and have the system
booting
| on the two new drives. I found a tool to re-create the boot partition
table
| so SCSI ID 0 is now able to boot on its own. SCSI ID 1 was the mirror
but is
| now broken.
|
| I can boot to either disk using the boot ini that was created with bootcfg
|
| However, Disk Admin reports the disk as follows:
|
| Disk0 (SCSI ID 0) F: (System) rest of the disk is unformated.
|
| Disk1 (SCSI ID 1) C: (Boot) D: (Paging File)
|
| Since F is assigned to this system drive I can't delete it, or change the
| drive letter which hoses up a network drive.
|
| At this point my mirror does not exist.
|
| I read in a KB that I could move the mirror drive to SCSI ID 0 and boot
with
| a FT Disk pinting to that drive - then delete the other partition (F:)
and
| recreate my mirror set. Along the way I could active the moved mirrored
| drive to allow it boot with out a FT disk.
|
| Well, I can't delete the F drive - all that happens is that the Disk0
shows
| as C: (Boot) D: (Paging File) and then Disk1 is F: (System)
|
| I can't activate the moved drive to be the boot device, and thus am
required
| to keep the FT Disk in the floppy drive to boot to my SCSI ID 0 drive -
disk0.
|
| I can remove the the drive reporting as F: and boot from the floppy and
| everthing works just like it is supposed to even the F drive is mapped
the
| proper network drive that would not connect earlier.
|
| So...
| 1) I have a disk in SCSI ID 0 now that Ideally I would like to make
bootable
| instead of using a FT Boot Disk.
|
| 2) I would also like to delete any reference to this other system disk.
|
| Even booting without the disk physically present in the server, Disk
Admin
| still shows that the missing volume is (system) - attempting to delete it
| generates an error telling me I can't delete the system disk.
|
| Please help...!
|
| My thought process was - why not just make the disk I booted to bootable
on
| its own, delete the other disk and recreate the whole mirror set and
| everything.
|
| J
|
|
|
|
| "Smurfman" wrote:
|
| > I created a mess for myself by doing the following:
| >
| > On a system with 2 18GB mirrored drives there was a windows 2000 server
| > install.
| > SCSI ID 0
| > SCSI ID 1
| >
| > I wanted to install windows 2003 on a fresh pair of SCSI Drives
| > SCSI ID 4
| > SCSI ID 5
| >
| > So I booted to my windows 2003 server, standard CD rom and proceeded to
| > perform a fresh install of W2K3 on SCSI ID 4 a new 73 GB drive.
| >
| > The install went great, created my mirror set (soft mirror)
| >
| > *** I went wrong by leaving the original SCSI drives in place, since
the
| > boot info was written there (boot.ini) ntldr, and ntdetect.com
| >
| > So I thought, hey no problem, copy the files, modify the boot.ini to
include
| > my drives at SCSI ID 0 adn SCSI ID 1 and reboot.
| >
| > Can't reboot - figured I must be missing a partition table entry MBR or
| > something.
| >
| > I read a KB article to use Recovery Console and the fixboot tool.
| >
| > I did this, it created a boot ini for the locaiton etc etc.
| >
| > Rebooted - still can't boot.
| >
| > I put all the drives back to where they below, now the primary mirror
can't
| > boot, but the "secondary plex" as was in the boot.ini
| >
| > I rebooted also tried the recovery console and the fixmbr
| >
| > This did not make a difference...
| >
| > -- So the long and short of things is that I have a machine that has
all the
| > boot info on the SCSI ID 0 (drive letter g:) and a boot.ini that points
SCSI
| > ID 4 and SCSI ID 5
| >
| > -- SCSI ID 4 - can't boot - I figure it is still missing a partition
table
| > entry for the OS
| > -- SCSI ID 5 - boots just fine
| >
| > ??? - How can I remove the old 18GB drive from the system, move the
drive
| > pair at SCSI ID 4 adn SCSI ID 5 to slots 0 and 1 and rebuild the boot
info to
| > boot to the drives with out needing the old drive for booting?
| >
| > Thanks
| > J
|

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