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LPR - Cannot boot mirror drive

Virgil Furlow — Tue, 18 Dec 2001 01:46:38 GMT

I have an LPR with mirrored drives. The first drive had the HP utility partition installed on it but the second did not. I lost the first drive, Now the second will only boot from a floppy. I fixed the boot.ini but it did not help. I think the problem is that the second drive is missing the HP utility partition. If I boot without the floppy I just get a blinking cursor in the upper left hand corner.

Thanks,
Virgil Furlow

Re: LPR - Cannot boot mirror drive

Marco Hogeveen — Tue, 18 Dec 2001 07:01:44 GMT

Have you made the partition active in Disk Administrator???
Also be sure that the boot.ini on the harddisk referrs to the correct SCSI-ID.
More information on software disk mirroring can be found on http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q120227.

Hope this helps.

Marco.

Re: LPR - Cannot boot mirror drive

Virgil Furlow — Tue, 18 Dec 2001 16:24:20 GMT

I have made sure the partition is active. If I make a non bootable partition active I get a missing operating system error. Once I put the bootable c: drive back to active I only get the black flashing cursor. I have tried NT repair on boot files with no luck also.

Re: LPR - Cannot boot mirror drive

Marino Meloni_1 — Tue, 18 Dec 2001 16:33:06 GMT

hi
I already get a problem like this one time, if I remember well ther is a Microsoft document which can solve a problem like this due to a hight defragmentation of the hdd in the boot zone, this may be your problem.
did you check the active partition with FDisk?
bye
marino

Re: LPR - Cannot boot mirror drive

Robert Demmer_1 — Wed, 19 Dec 2001 21:41:35 GMT

Hi,
just to make your problem clear to me, your mirror configuration is (was) software based? Or do you use netraid adapter?

robert