Is your system partition marked as Active ? -----Original Message----- From: BW Brandt Ward (5320) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 06 June 2002 15:55 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: MBR Recovery?
i copied the boot.ini from my c drive to the floppy so i know that they are looking in the same places. I havent yet tried the emergency repair as this is my production exchange box...would have to wait till the weekend...so i am getting my backup server setup for me to try things...havent had the time yet thismorning....but soon...very soon. b -----Original Message----- From: Myles, Damian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 9:41 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: MBR Recovery? /mbr won't work because it's not the boot sector that's the problem. - Check the BOOT.INI on your working floppy and compare it with the one on the server. If you can't check the NTFS partition then download NTFSDOS from www.wininternals.com... What's the value for the rdisk(x)partition(x) in boot.ini, i.e. the one you boot from on the floppy ? - Check NTLDR is there - Check NTDETECT.COM is there - Check attributes are set correctly on the files (particularly SYSTEM) Can't remember but it's down to one of these three... particularly if you can boot from flop... Still... you COULD always post this to the MCSE forums. I'm sure this used to be an exam question on the NT4 exams... give our budding paper-based experts something real to get their teeth into :) PS: Have you done the emergency repair as suggested earlier yet ? -----Original Message----- From: BW Brandt Ward (5320) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 06 June 2002 14:51 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: MBR Recovery? well, i ran the format /mbr like you suggested and now all my data is gone! just kidding my partition is an NT 4.0 NTFS and it is hardware mirrored. The microsoft Q article mentions fdisk /mbr which i tried and it didnt work...I will try doing the re-install to a different directory on my recovery server and see what happens...or maybe i'll trash the boot record of the recovery server and try the repair process... knowledge is power Thanks, b -----Original Message----- From: Charles Carerros [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 8:31 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: MBR Recovery? I have had this issue on a workstation, the only solution I found was to run "format /mbr" from a Windows 98 bootdisk. What this does is completely wipe out the MBR. Then when you try to boot, the BIOS should realise there there isnt one assignt the correct drive letter (I believe it defaults to C) and they it should find your ntldr and other boot files. I did it on my Directors machine. I know there is a Q reference to this, but I don't know what one. Oh, and it worked like a charm. chuck -----Original Message----- From: BW Brandt Ward (5320) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 4:07 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: OT: MBR Recovery? My exchange server's boot record is toast...only boots with floppy...without..give the missing or bad ntloader message... anyone have any luck copying the backup boot record over the corrupt one? If so, using diskedit or something else? Thanks, B _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
