HD replacement on NT4 2

[RonnieC]

Need to replace 2 Scsi drives with 1 Drive as the old ones are dead

Drive 1 had boot(fat) & ntfs
Drive 2 had ntfs only

Does NT 4 react to drives like DOS/Windows ie
Boot - C
Drive 2 ntfs = D
Drive 1 ntsf = E

or is it
Drive 1 Boot(fat) = C, NTFS = D
Drive 2 ntfs =E

Obviously if i had this backed up correctly i wouldn't be asking this stupid question !

 

[Daveyboy2]

Good question.

C is always gunna be your boot partition. Too many variables though - your Boot.ini determins which partition is booted. You also have multiple partitions that could have been named anything under the sun. It depends on how it was setup before.

If it was a normal scheme, then yes it is C,D,E, etc...

Are you looking to do a restore from a tape drive? What are you trying to accomplish?

 

[jaeddy]

generally speaking, NT letters primary partitions first, so if you have a primary on drive 1, an extended on drive 1 and a primary on drive 2 you will get:

c: primary 1
d: primary 2
e: extended 1

If it was primary 1, second primary 1, primary 2, you would get

c: primary 1
d: second primary 1
e: primary 2

Hope this helps

 

[RonnieC]

The problem appears to be that the original SCSI drives now both report on ID 6 they are not visible on the original server at all, although it still sees the Tape Drive, I used another SCSI drive controller in another machine and discovered that they will not tolerate being on the same controller at the same time, so i decided as the data looked ok the quickest method of restoring everything was to copy all the partitions to another drive (a EIDE drive). The problem was the rebooted machine had lost all the shares and the exchange server was ko'd so i was wondering about my basic (dos) drive assumption.
Got it all working now as i ended up changing the Exchange Registry entries to match the actual drive letters then did a backup to the new server machine. The good thing is now i think they will listen and i will get a BDC & raid