booting from mirrored image (RAID1) 1

[audiopimp]

Hi, I set up disk mirroring on my win2000 server box. (Mirror the System and Boot Partition (RAID1) in Windows 2000) 2X 40 gb SCSI drives for backup purposes. Now nothing has gone bad yet, but I'd like to make sure I can boot using the mirrored copy should something go wrong with the image. I am confident that I did the process properly, disk management looks right, I just dont wanna have 6 of my bosses breathing down my neck should a disk fail and I cant figure out how to startup the second one/ .)
How can I test if I did the mirroring right and how can I test boot from the Copy? I thought it might have been like when you have a dual boot system and during startup you manually select which OS you want, but it doesn't look like that.

thanks

 

[epohl]

Basically you need to create a boot disk and change your boot.ini to the mirrored drive. This article describes the process.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;113977

 

[SWD]

Actually, if you are using a hardware RAID 1 solution, then yes you can boot from one of the mirrored drives and nothing needs to be done to make it work.

I know this from experience. One of our RAID controller cards failed and as a temporary fix I setup the server to use just one of the drives and it booted just fine.

As for your second question. 'How can I test if I did the mirroring right'

Look in the RAID bios or with most good RAID cards there is windows sw that you can inspect it with. Roger Villeneuve

http://www.swd.ca