Raid Mirror and boot.ini issues(wont boot w/out boot floppy)

[shakamon]

I had a disk 0 in a mirror go bad. This had c and d drives on it.
To make a long story short...
I ended up moving disk 1 to the disk 0 slot and booted it with a NT boot floppy that I made from the server.
The server came back up, I broke the mirror, then put in a new HDD and recreated the mirror. The server works, however, it only boots with the boot floppy in it now. Any ideas how to fix this so I dont have to boot the system with a floppy? The boot.ini is the same one it used before...does it have to be changed somewhere> HElpppppp Shakamon
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[darranagl]

Check in the Disk Administrator check that your now C drive is set to Active (bootable).

Make sure that your C drive has the NTDETECT and NTLDR in its root, these files will be hidden/system files so you will have to enable View all files.
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[darranagl]

PS

Check your SCSI termination after you moved the drives (I presume they are SCSI Raid) New Zealand, a great place to visit.

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[shakamon]

All the necessary boot files are there. Recopied them again just to make sure. Compared boot.ini's. They are the same. Same files size on ntldr and ntdetect, and same time stamp.

Was wondering. If I install NT 4 to another directory, will it not still write the boot files to the root of C? Then refreshing the boot files.

or..
I was wondering if the boot stamp on disk 0 (was disk 1) is messed up. I assume I have to go into the BIOS to change this.

I am not sure what you mean by checking the SCSI termination, if the drive werent terminated, would they not work? Are you talking about jumper setting or changing the SCSI ID #?

Has anybody tried these things. Shakamon
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[darranagl]

Did you check that the drive0 is set to Active in Disk Admin?

I really think making the drive Active will fix it.

If you install NT to another folder it will update the BOOT.INI file with the extra info (append it), you will then have the option to boot to either folder.

As for the SCSI termination, I just thought if you swapped the drives around you may have to change which one is terminated. SCSI termination can cause strange problems. New Zealand, a great place to visit.

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