Windows 98 accessing Dynamic server boot disk...

[Robert]

I added a new drive to a server and then converted it to
dynamic and started mirroring the drives. The message from
the conversion said that I would not be able to 'boot'
earlier versions of Windows... I thought that was no
problem because I was not going to 'boot' earlier versions
of Windows on that drive.

Well, now you can guess... There are some Windows 98SE
systems that now can't access the network shares.

Is there any way to get Windows 9x systems to access our
new dynamic (mirrored) drive like before the change?

I can 'go back' to a basic boot disk, but I'd rather not
have to go back and loose the fault tolerance...

Thanks in advance...

 

[Leonard Severt [MSFT]]

I added a new drive to a server and then converted it to
dynamic and started mirroring the drives. The message from
the conversion said that I would not be able to 'boot'
earlier versions of Windows... I thought that was no
problem because I was not going to 'boot' earlier versions
of Windows on that drive.

Well, now you can guess... There are some Windows 98SE
systems that now can't access the network shares.

Is there any way to get Windows 9x systems to access our
new dynamic (mirrored) drive like before the change?

I can 'go back' to a basic boot disk, but I'd rather not
have to go back and loose the fault tolerance...

Thanks in advance...

The problem with Windows 9x accessing files has nothing to do with disk
being dynamic. Remember Windows 9x can't read NTFS at all but you can
access files on a NTFS drive on Windows 2000 Server. There is most likly
a networking problem.

Leonard Severt

Windows 2000 Server Setup Team