Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!
Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!
-
Congratulations strongm on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!
Inacccessible_boot_device error (BOD)
- Thread starter amanua
- Start date
the power outage may have damaged the MBR...
use the Recovery Console to fix the mbr, and boot files...
How to use the Windows recovery console.
fixmbr and fixboot should be the commands to use...
if one of the drives is damaged, then you may have to take one of them out as per the following article and reconvert it to a single disk...
How to non-destructively convert dynamic disks to basic disks
WARNIG!
make an IMAGE of the DRIVE before you do any repairs, just in case it goes wrong!!!
Ben
"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."
How to ask a question, when posting them to a professional forum.
Only ask questions with yes/no answers if you want "yes" or "no"
use the Recovery Console to fix the mbr, and boot files...
How to use the Windows recovery console.
fixmbr and fixboot should be the commands to use...
if one of the drives is damaged, then you may have to take one of them out as per the following article and reconvert it to a single disk...
How to non-destructively convert dynamic disks to basic disks
http://mypkb.wordpress.com/2007/03/28/how-to-non-destructively-convert-dynamic-disks-to-basic-disks/
WARNIG!
make an IMAGE of the DRIVE before you do any repairs, just in case it goes wrong!!!
Ben
"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."
How to ask a question, when posting them to a professional forum.
Only ask questions with yes/no answers if you want "yes" or "no"
- Thread starter
- #3
goombawaho
MIS
Just for kicks - did you try unplugging one of the raid drives and then booting and then switching drives that was unplugged and try booting again??? Most likely, both drives are sufffering from the same MBR issue or it would have booted, but easy to do this test.
Sounds like you might need professional help. If you don't fully understand what you are going to need to do in terms of making a reliable image backup (to CYA) or fixing the MBR, don't proceed. Stuff can go south real fast.
It's great to try to do things yourself, but sometimes you end up dropping an anvil on your foot and that hurts worse than getting professional help. Asking "how to" in a forum will not make you competent instantaneously. Just sayin', not hatin'.
Sounds like you might need professional help. If you don't fully understand what you are going to need to do in terms of making a reliable image backup (to CYA) or fixing the MBR, don't proceed. Stuff can go south real fast.
It's great to try to do things yourself, but sometimes you end up dropping an anvil on your foot and that hurts worse than getting professional help. Asking "how to" in a forum will not make you competent instantaneously. Just sayin', not hatin'.
- Status
Similar threads
- Locked
- Question