Dynamic disk and recovering

[Sanjay Tibrewal]

Hello,

I had Win2K server installed on my machine. I added a new hard drive (slave
mode), made both drives dynamic and mirrored my C drive containing the OS
(and data) to a volume on the added drive. Now my C drive seems to have
crashed and I am looking for the best way to bring my system back up using
the drive I had added later.

Any suggestions on how to go about doing this? If I just change the jumper
setting to make the second drive as master and boot the system it won't. I
created a boot disk and used that - now the system complains of missing
ntoskernel.exe.

Any suggestions or links for more information on how I can get my system
back up would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Sanjay.

 

[Leonard Severt [MSFT]]

Hello,

I had Win2K server installed on my machine. I added a new hard drive
(slave mode), made both drives dynamic and mirrored my C drive
containing the OS (and data) to a volume on the added drive. Now my C
drive seems to have crashed and I am looking for the best way to bring
my system back up using the drive I had added later.

Any suggestions on how to go about doing this? If I just change the
jumper setting to make the second drive as master and boot the system
it won't. I created a boot disk and used that - now the system
complains of missing ntoskernel.exe.

Any suggestions or links for more information on how I can get my
system back up would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Sanjay.

The boot disk you created is the best way to go. The missing
ntoskrnl.exe error you got probably just means the boot.ini is
incorrect. Examine the arc path in the boot.ini and make certain it is
pointing to the correct hard drive number and partition number.

Leonard Severt

Windows 2000 Server Setup Team

 

[Joep]

Hi,

If other suggestions don't work I have an un-official one:

- If the disk contained just one volume/partition ONLY!

- Get MBRtool (free) and backup the MBR (so you can UNDO if required)

- Run it's partition table editor and change the value for type from 42 to:

07 if the volume was NTFS
0C if the volume was FAT32

- Save changes

- Set the partition active


If you feel uncomfortable with partition table editing you can use DiskPatch
(not free) and have it 'recover' the partition table on the mirrored disk
using the Repair MBR > FixMBR Tables option. After the partition is
recovered you will need to make it active again. DiskPatch will backup the
original MBR to the file called mbrsav.80, rename it after you quit
DiskPatch.


Regards,
Joep

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[Sanjay Tibrewal]

Leonard and Joep,

Thank you both for your responses. Silly of me but I forgot an important
part - I changed the motherboard as well. Any thoughts on what impact would
that have and what if anything I should do differently to bring the system
back up?

TIA,
Sanjay.

 

[rich]

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-----Original Message-----
Hello,

I had Win2K server installed on my machine. I added a new hard drive (slave
mode), made both drives dynamic and mirrored my C drive containing the OS
(and data) to a volume on the added drive. Now my C drive seems to have
crashed and I am looking for the best way to bring my system back up using
the drive I had added later.

Any suggestions on how to go about doing this? If I just change the jumper
setting to make the second drive as master and boot the system it won't. I
created a boot disk and used that - now the system complains of missing
ntoskernel.exe.

Any suggestions or links for more information on how I can get my system
back up would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Sanjay.


.
Here try this..

http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBJ/tip4700/rh4788.htm