You should not need to make any changes to use either member of a mirror set. We too use w2k mirroring in many locations.
If a hard drive fails, all that is normally necessary is to pull the bad one, boot into windows normally, break the mirror set, and remove the bad drive info from disk manager. I know this works as we have done so several times, and one of my servers, at this very moment, is booting from the second drive in a mirror set, as I pulled the primary out while I make some configuration changes. (If things go awry, I can put the primary back in to be where I was before the changes. Drive letters should only change AFTER breaking the mirror set. At least, that has been my experience. Don -----Original Message----- From: John Tolmachoff (Lists) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 1:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] OT: Win2000 mirroring > Also, (at least on W2K mirroring) the information used by the OS to do the > mirroring is stored on the primary drive. If that hard drive goes bad in > the area that stores that info., you have to do low-level editing of the > disk to recover to the mirrored drive. In the case I dealt with this was a > not very fun, 5 hour call to MS PSS. Even when the other drive was back up, > the volume mapping was corrupted (D: was W:, C: was Q:, etc.). Ended up > reloading the server. Don't take this as an absolute technical fact since > I'm going off memory here. Where is it stored on the primary drive, the MBR? Or do you mean in the boot partition? Any more information that can be provided would be a help, as I and clients have a number of servers that use software mirrors due to cost. John Tolmachoff MCSE CSSA Engineer/Consultant eServices For You www.eservicesforyou.com To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
