Hi, folks

I am not sure whether I post to the right newsgroup for this question. If
not, please advise me. Thanks.

I have 1 W2K server (SP4) consists of 2 SCSI disks in Win2K software RAID1.
Last week, I got an error message box telling me one part of the disk was
un-accessable. However the system still running ok. I tried to run the disk
management snap-in. It showed "Connecting to local disk management
service..." and stayed forever. I could see dmremote.exe running. So I
couldn't split the mirror and replace the faulty disk.

Yesterday, I discovered that disk 0 failed by booting from different disk.
So I disconnected disk 0 and booted from disk 1. The server works fine now
with single disk. However, I still can't open the disk management snap-in to
break the non-existing RAID 1. The mmc grey-out and showing "Connecting to
local disk management service" forever. The LDM service was up. But when I
restarted the service, it stayed in Stopping mode until reboot the system.

Because the system is critical for us, so how can I safely replace a new
disk and rebuild the RAID 1? I check lots of sites, they all show the
instruction under the snap-in mode.

Thanks in advance.

Yujie

Hi, all

I have figured out the problem.

It is because of the APC Power Chute Business Edition Ver 6.22. My server
installed this package.

Due to the license of Java running environment expired after June 2005, the
server have lots of weird behaviours if you rebooted your server after this
date. Such as, taking age to load Control Panel, couldn't install DOS
programs, couldn't start Local Disk Management snap-in, etc. (See below link)

http://jpaa-en.apc.com/cgi-bin/jpaa_...i=&p_topview=1

After I un-installed the package, the Disk management snap-in pop-up
straightaway. I have repaired the RAID 1 after it.

Since lots of companies use APC UPS, it would be great to pass this message
for them.

Cheers,

Yuggie