Chris, What you are saying is that you want a parallel installation of NT 4 on the C: drive. This will work with no problem. I am curious though, what would you be using the C: drive for if you will not booting to it? Are you just setting it up for recovery purposes in case something happens to the D: drive? Question about your scenario... Is the C: drive a different physical drive altogether? Or is it just a partition of a RAID of drives? If physical then just replace the drive, go into disk admin, create the partition and format it. Then install NT on that new partition and then modify your .ini file to default to d: partition. If not physical and just the partition is hosed, then you may not have to replace any hardware and may just have to re-create the partition. Either way, you can do it, but you will not be able to salvage anything on that bad partition.
-----Original Message----- From: Chris Barber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 3:06 PM To: MSWinNT Discussions 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]
