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----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Barber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "MSWinNT Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 1:06 PM Subject: Corrupted Boot drive in NT 4.0 > This is my first post to this list. I couldn't find any info regarding > protocol for this list, so if didn't do something right or broke some kind > of rule, Sorry. > > I have an NT server 4 whose boot partition has been corrupted. The server is > configured as follows: > > C: drive on disk 1 is active boot partition and is no longer functioning > D: drive on disk 2 contains the Winnt directory and is still functioning > normally > > The server is still running in NT, but if I shut the server down to restart > it, it is not going to be able to boot as the boot partition is now gone > (the drive failed, hardware failure). > > I was going to install another drive to replace the failed drive and make it > active. Then I am going to install another copy of NT onto the C: drive to > make it bootable to NT again, and point the boot.ini file back to the > original installation of NT on the D: drive. This sounds good in theory(at > least to me), but I haven't ever tried anything like this before. I do not > have a copy of the NT files (NTLDR, NTDetect, etc..) required to boot that > were on the C: drive to create an NT boot disk either. I have a full backup > of my > data, but I don't really want to have to reconstruct this server. > > Will this work? If it won't, is there anyway to get the server to boot into > my orginal installation of NT? > > Chris Barber > > > ------ > You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------ You are subscribed as [email protected] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
