Yes you can. The EISA partition isn't bootable by Windows. That said, it has the Dell diagnostics on it, which obviates the need to have the CD handy (and it loads much faster)
Cheers Ken From: Gavin Wilby [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, 28 May 2009 8:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Boot.ini / software RAID, need to fix. OK, Scratch all that, all i really need to know is, can I remove the EISA partition without wrecking the boot loader, I *think* so, but Id just like a little reassurance 1st. gavin. On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Gavin Wilby <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I actually meant: multi(0)disk(2)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows Server 2003 for Small Business Server" /noexecute=optout /fastdetect On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Gavin Wilby <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi all, I have taken over an SBS site and they have (horror) a 2 disk software mirror. However although the Disk Manager shows the disks mirroring OK, as here: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3570/3572139495_92aa843fdb_o_d.jpg The boot ini looks like this: [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows Server 2003 for Small Business Server" /noexecute=optout /fastdetect C:\CMDCONS\BOOTSECT.DAT="Microsoft Windows Recovery Console" /cmdcons I assume that I can simply add this as a line to the ini file? multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Windows Server 2003 for Small Business Server" /noexecute=optout /fastdetect Which will aloow me to boot from the second disk if I ever have to? I also want to remove that small partition at the start of the disk0, looking at the ini file there should be no reason why I cannot? -- Gavin Wilby, Twitter: http://twitter.com/gavin_wilby GSXR Blog: http://www.stoof.co.uk<http://www.stoof.co.uk/> -- Gavin Wilby, Twitter: http://twitter.com/gavin_wilby GSXR Blog: http://www.stoof.co.uk<http://www.stoof.co.uk/> Sent from Isle Of Man -- Gavin Wilby, Twitter: http://twitter.com/gavin_wilby GSXR Blog: http://www.stoof.co.uk Sent from Isle Of Man ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
