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Software RAID 1 Problem HDD rebooting

Author
25 Mar 2005 4:46 PM
Andrejus
Hi,

I  got server 2003 wit 2 mirrored dinamic discs.
One of them fails.
I remove it from server, but other one doesn't start,- it boot up till
driver "drvmain.sdb",
and restarts again.  On oher server when I tried import foreign disk it
shows status"ofline".

So how I could solve this problem ? Boot system from that hdd ?

Thank you

Author
26 Mar 2005 11:07 PM
Gotcha
Can you get the machine to boot with the failed disk in place?
If so, boot the machine like that and Ghost it.
Once Ghosted, replace the faulty disk with a good one and let the the mirror
rebuild.
Once rebuilt try rebooting the machine, with both disks in, to make sure it
does so ok.
Then try rebooting with jsut the new disk to make sure that's ok.
If at any point it fails on reboot try using the Ghost image by Ghosting it
onto a new disk and seeing if that works.

There's always a repair job using Windows repair console
Iain



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"Andrejus" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I  got server 2003 wit 2 mirrored dinamic discs.
> One of them fails.
> I remove it from server, but other one doesn't start,- it boot up till
> driver "drvmain.sdb",
> and restarts again.  On oher server when I tried import foreign disk it
> shows status"ofline".
>
> So how I could solve this problem ? Boot system from that hdd ?
>
> Thank you
>
>
>
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Author
27 Mar 2005 9:15 AM
Andrejus
No.
Failed one totaly dead.

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