RAID controller driver missing

24 Nov 2007 2:09 PM

JE

Hi All,

One of our support person accidently uninstalled Array controller
drivers (from Device Manager) instead of removing Drivers for HBA
card. This server has RAID 1 - with single array.

The server was rebooted after the uninstallation and it is not finding
the hard disk & not booting up.

Please suggest me a procedure to reinstall this array controller, with
out rebuilding the server.

Any help is highly appriciated.

Regards,
JE

24 Nov 2007 4:48 PM

Dave Patrick

Try loading the controller driver from floppy. For the floppy to
successfully boot Windows 2003 the disk must contain the "NT" boot sector.
Format a diskette (on a Windows 2003 machine, not a DOS/Win9x, so the "NT"
boot sector gets written to the floppy), then copy ntldr, ntdetect.com, and
boot.ini to it. Edit the boot.ini to give it a correct ARC path for the
machine you wish to boot.

In order for this to work you'll want to change the arc path in boot.ini
from multi syntax to scsi syntax to indicate that Windows 2003 will load a
boot device driver and use that driver to access the boot partition. Then
also copy the correct manufacturer scsi driver to the floppy but renamed to
ntbootdd.sys

Something like this below;

[boot loader]
timeout=10
default=scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows 2003 0,1"
scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Windows 2003 0,2"
scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows 2003 1,1"
scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Windows 2003 1,2"

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"JE" wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> One of our support person accidently uninstalled Array controller
> drivers (from Device Manager) instead of removing Drivers for HBA
> card. This server has RAID 1 - with single array.
>
> The server was rebooted after the uninstallation and it is not finding
> the hard disk & not booting up.
>
> Please suggest me a procedure to reinstall this array controller, with
> out rebuilding the server.
>
> Any help is highly appriciated.
>
> Regards,
> JE

24 Nov 2007 4:53 PM

Dave Patrick

"the correct manufacturer scsi driver "

I should have said "raid" but you get the idea.

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Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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26 Nov 2007 8:23 AM

JE

Thanks Dave, The server is up !

27 Nov 2007 2:34 AM

Dave Patrick

Great news. You're welcome.

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Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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"JE" wrote:
> Thanks Dave, The server is up !
>