Removed 1/2 of mirror, now won't boot.

[axslinger]

Greetings,
I have an NT 4.0 server w/SP3 on an HP NetServer E50. It has an HP/Adaptec
2940UW SCSI card w/2 9.1 GB HD's attached.
The drives were mirrored and have a 750 MB FAT C: partition. The D: partiton
uses the remainder of the drive and is NTFS.
Recently the drive with ID0 failed. I removed the drive, booted with an NT boot
disk, got into NT without any problems, I then broke the mirror. At this point
everything is working normally, except, I need to make the remaining drive
bootable. I keep getting a message saying Boot: NTLDR not found, insert
another disk.
I have checked the Boot.ini file and have check the existing drive for the
existance of the NTLDR and NTDETECT.COM file and they are on the root of
the exisiting drive. I changed the ID of the good drive to "0" but it didn't help.
Nobody ever made a repair disk. What do I need to do to make it bootable? I
am concerned that when I put the new replacement drive in and mirror it, it
still won't be bootable.

Many thanks,
Brian

 

[Karpi]

Hello,

maybe the boot-sector of the hdd is defective. Try to use the repair-utility from the setup-cd and only repair the boot-sector.

HTH
Karpi
<fluctuat nec mergitur>

 

[henareho]

Check BOOT.INI

If the SCSI ID on your primary drive is now 0 and the boot device in BOOT.INI is disk(0) things should be OK.

Otherwise, if the SCSI ID is 1, then just change
disk(0)to disk(1) in BOOT.INI

 

[Voyager1]

Provided the partition didn't change, and it probably didn't, then henareho is absolutely right. The statement in the boot.ini file needs to be changes to reflect the mirrored partition rather than the primary. Normally in a SCSI environment it is just a matter of changing the disk() item in the ARC Statement.

 

[waynemaples]

see this tip for background

http://is-it-true.org/nt/atips/atips138.shtml

Steps to Recover a Failed Mirrored System/Boot Partition

-Wayne
Contentmaster NT/W2K/Hacking Tips for NT Admins and NT Users

http://is-it-true.org/