Booting From Mirror After Primary Partition
Is Lost
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 113977
If the partition containing the Windows
NT Server system files is mirrored and then
lost, you can use a fault tolerant boot
floppy disk to restart Windows NT Server
and access the mirror of the lost drive.
Hard drive failure
While manufacturers would like you to
believe hard drive failures are a rare
event, the reality is quite different.
When Survey.com polled 1,293 IT staff
and business executives, the majority
had experienced computer downtime in the
previous year due to disk drive failure.
Also, 30.3 percent of the time the computer
was down for more than 24 hours. Storage
explosions, unsinkable drives and disk
crashes © hard drive reliability still
leaves a lot to be desired. What can you
do about it? Source: ServerWorld
How To Guard
Against Boot Failure With a Windows NT
Boot Disk
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 101668
How To Guard Against Boot Failure With
a Windows NT Boot Disk |
HOW TO: Recover an
Accidentally Deleted NTFS or FAT32 Dynamic Volume
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 245725 - If
a Windows 2000 NTFS or FAT32 dynamic volume is
accidentally deleted by using the Disk Management
snap-in, you may be able to recover the volume
and the data contained on it. You can do this
only if a new volume has not been created and
formatted in its place. When Disk Management removes
a volume from a dynamic disk, it erases the volume's
file-system boot sector (sector-0 of the volume),
and then removes the volume entry from the Disk
Management private region database, leaving the
rest of the drive intact (including the data).
Because both NTFS and FAT32 volumes maintain backup
boot sectors, you can recover the volume by restoring
the boot sector.
How to Recover Mirroring
Windows NT Using IDE Devices
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 141702 This
article provides the steps necessary to recover
mirroring using IDE devices under Windows NT.
Use this article in conjunction with the following
articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base, which
explains how to create an Windows NT Fat
Recovering from Failed
System Drive with Non-Default %SystemRoot% Folder
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 235478 - When
you install Windows 2000 by booting from either
the Windows 2000 installation CD-ROM or the four
Setup floppy disks, Setup does not prompt you
for or allow you to change the target installation
folder name.
Recovering a Volume Set after a Drive Crashes
Advice from a reader. Source: Windows & .NET
Magazine (Aug 1999)
Using Emergency Repair
Disk With Fault Tolerant Partitions
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 113976 After
creating volume sets, stripe sets with parity,
stripe sets without parity, or mirror sets, always
save the disk configuration information to the
Windows NT Emergency Repair Disk.
Using Norton Disk
Edit to Backup Your Master Boot Record
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 166997 - The
master boot record is required to boot your computer.
Having a current backup of your master boot record
is an excellent way to ensure that, in the event
of a virus or hardware failure, you will be able
to recover your system in the shortest amount
of time possible
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