Hard disk doesnot boot after recreating mirror

[Guest]

Hi all,
I had two hard disks (A and B) which were mirrored. Eventually the
master disk (A) failed and i used a fault tolerant floopy to boot to disk (B)
after editing the boot.ini file. Since then I am using the floppy everytime
to boot the Os.
Since the failed drive(A) had bad sectors, I replaced it with a new one
and mirrored it with the currently working disk(B). But still I have to use
the floppy everytime to boot the OS . Is there anyway I can boot from the
hard disk without the help of floppy ?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Regards,
Abraham

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Hi all,
I had two hard disks (A and B) which were mirrored. Eventually the
master disk (A) failed and i used a fault tolerant floopy to boot to disk (B)
after editing the boot.ini file. Since then I am using the floppy everytime
to boot the Os.
Since the failed drive(A) had bad sectors, I replaced it with a new one
and mirrored it with the currently working disk(B). But still I have to use
the floppy everytime to boot the OS . Is there anyway I can boot from the
hard disk without the help of floppy ?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Regards,
Abraham

I suggest you try this:
- Reboot in Recovery Console mode.
- Issue these commands:
fixmbr
fixboot

 

[Guest]

Thanks Pegaus for your help. But I still have the problem persisting. I will
give more info regarding the issue. The current situation is as follows.

I have two physical SCSI disks(call them A and B) 140 GB each.
Both are dynamic disks.
Drive A has one Volume C : on it
Drive B has two voulmes C and G
Drive B is mirrored to Drive A for volume C only.
SCSI ID for Drive is 0 and drive B is 2 (not 1).
I am using fault tolent floppy to boot to Drive B and its working fine.
I tried booting from the Win @K CD and issued the commands fixboot c and
fixmbr on Drive A .
Still when I start, after the BIOS there is no message at all. Its looks
like the system has stoped with a cursor blinking.
If I use the floppy it again boots from Drive B as usual.

Is there anything I can do for making the Drive A to boot or how can I make
sure its is bootable.

Thanks for any help.

Regards,
Abraham

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

The presence of a blinking cursor after the boot usually
indicates that there is no "active" disk. This is easyl fixed
for IDE disks by booting with a Win98 boot disk
(www.bootdisk.com) and running fdisk.exe. I don't know
if or how it works for SCSI disks.