Win2k server mirror recovery problem

[TagForce]

Hi,

I tried to recover a failed mirrored primary drive but it won't boot at all now (it just shows a cursor in the top left of the screen, and does nothing), except when booting from a bootdisk.

We had the primary disk (SCSI ID 0) mirrored on a secondary disk (SCSI ID 1). Both are dynamic disks, and there's 2 NTFS partitions, and one small FAT32 partition.

The primary disk failed and after replacing it and rebuilding the mirror from the secondary drive all we get is that darned cursor. We can boot into Win2k using a bootdisk just fine, and we've tried replacing the boot.ini, NTLDR, and NTDETECT.COM files with the ones on the bootdisk. We've tried to fix the bootstuff from the recovery console, without success.

Anybody have any clue as to why it won't boot?
It looks like it's booting, but it just doesn't do anything. It won't even show the boot.ini menu, just that cursor.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Ray

 

[FilthPig]

A lot of server manufacturers put a utility partition as the first partition on the disk. Our HP Netservers, for example, will not boot unless that utility partition is there. I've had to break the mirror, install this utility partition, then re-mirror and make the one with the partition disk0 to fix it. Marc Creviere