No Primary Partition

[Joe]

Hi,
I wqs running with my scsi c: drive mirrored, disk0 and
disk1. Disk0 went bad and disk1 keep running.. so far
cool...
So I got a new drive and did the following:
1: Shutdown and removed the bad disk, and made the good
disk (disk1), disk0
2: I have a boot diskette so I booted with that disk.
so far so good.
3: I broke the mirror
4: Shutdown - installed the newe drive.
5: Mirrored the drives.
Now the only problem is I don't have a primary partition
to set "active" so I have to boot from the floppy.
So, the Q is. How do I make the partition on drive0 a
primary partition so I can mark it active.
Thanks...

 

[David Leahy \(MSFT\)]

Hi -

The problem probably isn't that you don't have a primary partition to mark
active; its that you don't have boot code in Sector 0.

If you create a parition on the new drive first, then delete the partition,
then mirror, you should be able to avoid this problem.

hth.

 

[Mark]

When you boot without the floppy what error message do you
get?

-----Original Message-----
Hi -

The problem probably isn't that you don't have a primary partition to mark
active; its that you don't have boot code in Sector 0.

If you create a parition on the new drive first, then delete the partition,
then mirror, you should be able to avoid this problem.

hth.
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Hi,
I wqs running with my scsi c: drive mirrored, disk0 and
disk1. Disk0 went bad and disk1 keep running.. so far
cool...
So I got a new drive and did the following:
1: Shutdown and removed the bad disk, and made the good
disk (disk1), disk0
2: I have a boot diskette so I booted with that disk.
so far so good.
3: I broke the mirror
4: Shutdown - installed the newe drive.
5: Mirrored the drives.
Now the only problem is I don't have a primary partition
to set "active" so I have to boot from the floppy.
So, the Q is. How do I make the partition on drive0 a
primary partition so I can mark it active.
Thanks...

.