Win2k disk mirroring issues

[Ravi]

One of our servers has suddenly stopped booting from the
hard disk. This server has 2 mirrorred hard disks in it,
divided inot 3 logical drives. It boots and works fine
from a floppy. On examining the disk manager, we observed
that the first partition on disk 0 is the drive that
contains the data and not the system drive. On the second
drive the first partition is the system drive. We are now
trying to change the mirrorring so that the first
partition becomes the system drive. However when we remove
the mirror, the disk 0 system drive gets assigned the C
drive and the second drive gets assigned the F drive
letters. The data partition, even after being removed,
does not allow the system drive to move to being the first
partition.
Has anyone experienced this issue? Any ideas would be
greatly appreciated.

 

[milt]

Greetings: The ARC path in the boot.ini file 'tells' the
system where to go to find the files that will boot the
operating system. So, the ARC path must be adjusted to
point to the operating system files. If I understand your
statement "It boots and works fine from a floppy", it
sounds to me like you have the correct ARC path on your
fault tolerant floppy. If that is true, copy that
boot.ini file to the hard drive that has the good
operating system. Hope this helps. milt

 

[Guest]

Hi,
Thanks for the tip. Been there done that.
I have copied the system files from the floppy and tried
to do that but to no avail.
Will it be okay if we swap the 2 hard disks - they are
software mirrored. The second disk whows the correct
partition information.
Thanks in advance for all your help.
Regards
Ravi

 

[Guest]

Yes, as long as the ARC path points to the correct
operating system files.