LH3 server with netraid won't boot

[mark steadman]

Wont' boot, ntldr missing, had no active partition
I want to try booting from windows server 2000 and using repair option, but am not sure if the netraid drivers are loading. I have important data on the second partition of a striped raid.

[Sean T. Craig]

Mark,

You're jumping the the end of the story. The first thing you need to do is look at your RAID configuration. You don't need the RAID drivers loaded to see the partitions, they are just to tell Windows how to manage the RAID controller. If FDISK shows no partitions, you need to find out why.

First step:
Check the RAID POST message. How many logical drives found/degraded/failed/handled by BIOS.

Next, go into M and check your RAID configuration. Choose Objects-->Physical Drive and check each drive for it's array designation and status. Then check the properties and find out if any drives are not responding and make sure they all have capacity.

Third, back to Objects and choose Logical Drive and record the properties of all your logical drives.

Post your findings here and we will tell you what to do next.

Best of luck,

Sean T. Craig Sr. C.E.T., M.C.P.