Re: Broke Mirror incorrectly and can't login ... what do I do now?

From: Bjorn Landemoo (mvp2.REMOVE_at_landemoo.com)
Date: 10/01/04

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    Leland

    A fault tolerant boot disk will get you going from the disk without MBR.
    Format a floppy from within Win2003, and copy the files boot.ini,
    ntdetect.com, ntldr and ntbootdd.sys (if it exists in C:\) to it. This disk
    will circumvent the missing MBR and boot your server, so that you can clean
    up the rest of your problem with the broken mirror.

    Best regards

    Bjorn 

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Bjorn Landemoo - mvp2@landemoo.com - http://landemoo.com/
Microsoft MVP (Windows Server - File System)
"Leland Cheung" <LelandCheung@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>I incorrectly broke a mirror of my boot disk, and now I can't log into my 
>server.  What I did was mirror the C drive to another disk (without first 
>creating a volume in order to get the MBR on it, which I later read about).  
>Then I logged into the mirror (via the option at boot up to select the other 
>plex) and clicked on the drive containing the mirror and selected Break 
>Mirrored Volume.  Then the problems started.
>
>Since the mirrored disk doesn't have an MBR, when I only plug it in as the 
>primary I just get a black screen with a blinking cursor.  If I keep the 
>original plugged in I can elect to boot to the mirror, but I get a blue 
>screen.  If I elect to boot back to the original it gives me an lsass.ee 
>error saying that the Security Accounts Manager initialization failed and 
>that the Directory Service cannot start.  If I boot from the install CD and 
>go to the recovery console, neither my local nor admin password allow me to 
>log into the mirrored drive (from which I could supposedy do a fixboot to 
>rebuild the MBR).  I can log into safe mode, but I don't know what I would do 
>from there.
>
>Can anyone please help me fix this or undo what I've done?  Thanks!
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