"Rich Moulton" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in news:07aa01c3bf8d$5dd303f0
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> Hello Folks,
>
> Maybe someone can help me here. We have a Dell Windows
> 2000 server with 2 hotplug SCSI 36 gig drivers. This
> server did not come with hardware RAID so we setup a
> software mirror through Microsoft's disk manager.
>
> Sure enough, a few months later, the primary harddisk
> crashed.
>
> We were able to boot back up with the aid of a newly
> created FT Boot floppy that points to the healthy drive.
> Since then we have installed a new harddrive and
> re-mirrored successfully
>
> How do we fix the machine to boot from the harddisk and get
> rid of this stupid floppy? I've tried an old NT trick of
> creating a 10 meg FAT partition at the beginning of the new
> drive, making it active and coping the floppy to it - nope
> system says cannot find ntldr.
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rich whycan'titjustwork Moulton
>
Based on error message it soounds like the NFTS Bootsector is the
problem. Boot from CD into Recovery Console and run Fixboot.
Leonard Severt
Windows 2000 Server Setup Team
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