Software RAID Mirror

[Rene Verstappen]

Hi,

I was wondering if a RAID 1 (mirror) created by windows 2000 server can be
used as following.

When a disk in the mirror fails - is this example the IDE master, the
original single disk were windows is installed before creating the mirror -
that contains the boot section, the system is unable to start, because
boot.ini will search for the none presented harddisk. ( It's possible, but
you got to use a bootdisk that contains critical win2k server boot files)

My questions is, when my second harddisk is a exact mirror of all the
partion existed on the original harddisk, with c-partion contain all the
boot files needed, and I switch my slave harddisk - who did survive - to
master, so my boot.ini file is correct again, will the system then be able
to start normal?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Emmers Presson [MSFT]]

It MAY work, but many things need to be just right. I would suggest that you
create the "boot floppy" that you mentioned. Here is an article listing
reasons why you would not be able to boot from the Shadow drive of a mirror
set:

167045 Reasons Why Windows NT Does Not Boot From a Shadow Mirror Drive
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=167045