Re: mirrored drives, partition

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Seth:
Thanks for the information. The file system is actually not labeled at all:
I tried putting it as FAT32 and that label was shown in properties. But the
original has nothing in the file system column.

So, is there some way I can reproduce this so I can boot from my mirror? Or
maybe that was not the problem all along?
Norman
"seth" <seth@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> the partition labled eisa configuration is usually from the oem (in this
> case dell) which has to do with the machine itself (diagnostics, etc)
> the file system is labled fat which is probably fat12 which isn't
> supported under 2000/2003/xp
> it is used if u press a key during post...usually like f10 or f12
> depending on manufacturer
>
> "Norman Lane" <norman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>I have a small network with 2003 SBE on a new Dell 1800, two SCSI drives
>>with the embedded controller (software RAID 1 ?). We set it up with one
>>drive mirroring the other. In doing so, we had to create a 102M partition
>>at the beginning of each drive, for reasons I never understood. The
>>partition has no drive letter and no file system listed. It says it has
>>EISA configuration.The rest of the drive is broken into a few volumes.
>>
>> I swapped out one of the drives so I would have an off-site backup. When
>> I installed new drive, it set it up with the partition at the end. Ran
>> fine, but later when I tried booting from that drive as a test, it would
>> not, with message "could not start because of disk configuration
>> problem".."could not read from selected boot disk".
>>
>> Thinking the problem is rearranged disk, I:
>> 1) broke mirror
>> 2) had to rename volumes because letters I was using were assigned to
>> drive I wanted to restructure when mirror broken
>> 3) deleted all volumes and partition on drive to be restructured (disk 1)
>> 4) converted drive 1 to basic
>> 5) created partition on drive 1 of 102 M
>> 6)convert to dynamic disk
>> When I convert to dynamic, makes partition a volume.
>>
>> So:
>> 1) why do I need this little partition?
>> 2) If I need it, how can I get it?
>> Thanks!
>>
>
>


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