Also, get the NT resource kit. There is a fault-tolerance repair utility
there, IIRC. I know it saved my butt once when I had to rebuild a software
RAID 5 (also the LAST time I ever used software RAID!)
Andrew Cook
Senior Network Engineer
hitter.net
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Vaughn Thurman
> Sent: Monday, August 02, 1999 12:45 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Offtopic NT Volumes
>
>
> Mirrored drive (c:) ?
> Some things that could help.
> One
> Format a floppy on another NTFS machine and copy NTLDR, NTDETECT.COM and
> BOOT.INI to that floppy. Try booting from that floppy, if that
> works let me
> know and there are some other things I can suggest to get you back to
> booting from c: (if that works).
> Two
> Run FDISK and make sure the partition is marked active.
> Three
> Put the HD into another machine with NT on it and edit the
> boot.ini to point
> to the mirrored drive, by upping the rdisk(1) to rdisk(2) in the boot.ini.
> Return the drive to the server...
> Four
> Use your RDISK (you did make one right?) to restore the boot files. I can
> not remember if this will solve the boot record dilemma you are in or not,
> but it can not hurt (provided it is a current RDISK).
> Five
> Sue the pants off of Gateway!
> -V
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Robert Everland III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, August 02, 1999 11:52 AM
> Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Offtopic NT Volumes
>
>
> > It was NTFS. Yeah the guy said to me afterwards well we usually
> deal with
> > hardware raid not software raid so we didn't know this would happen. Gee
> > thanx now you tell me. Thank god this didn't have critical critical
> > information.
> >
> > ____________________
> > Robert Everland III
> > Network Administrator
> > 609-696-5660
> > http://www.ccoel.org/
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> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Vaughn Thurman
> > Sent: Monday, August 02, 1999 11:33 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Offtopic NT Volumes
> >
> > Gateway Technical Support = Military Intelligence
> > As ex-Military (Air Force) I can get away with that joke, but
> let me tell
> > you it is not funny when they do this kind of stuff. Gateway Technical
> > support is not ready for the business world yet. They just
> don't have the
> > experience there I think because they do not pay enough.
> >
> > OK on to being useful. Was it an NTFS or FAT Volume?
> >
> > -V
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Robert Everland III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Monday, August 02, 1999 11:10 AM
> > Subject: [IMail Forum] Offtopic NT Volumes
> >
> >
> > > Hey guys I talked to Gateway support because I was having some problem
> > with
> > > my computer and he had me do an fdisk /mbr to my drive to get
> it to work
> > > right, thing is when I did that it made my volume drive that
> was on the
> > > computer unrecognizable. Does anyone know how to remount a
> volume in NT
> or
> > > get a utility that will do it. The reason we did the fdisk was because
> the
> > > partition one was messing up, it was recognizing it before we
> did it, it
> > > just screwed up all the info on the boot sector, any help would be
> > > appreciated.
> > >
> > > ____________________
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> > > 609-696-5660
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