new drive

[wayner]

Hi,
I have a production server, win2K, 1 scsi drive that is
going bad. I need to keep the server up, with very little
down time. So...I installed a 2nd drive, IDE, and brought
the system back up. I restored the scsi drive back up
onto the new disk, and created an entry in the boot.ini
file. Also, the floppy drive is bad. How do I get the
machine to boot of off the second drive? I think it needs
to be marked active, but I do not want to mess up the
existing scsi drive yet.
Thanks - Wayner

 

[Emmers Presson [MSFT]]

I would recommend replacing the bad floppy drive and using a fault-tolerant
boot floppy. See this:

101668 How to Use a Windows Boot Disk to Prevent Boot Failure in Windows
2000
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=101668