Cannot get rid of the FT Boot Floopy

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Rich Moulton

Hello Folks,

Maybe someone can help me here. We have a Dell Windows
2000 server with 2 hotplug SCSI 36 gig drivers. This
server did not come with hardware RAID so we setup a
software mirror through Microsoft's disk manager.

Sure enough, a few months later, the primary harddisk
crashed.

We were able to boot back up with the aid of a newly
created FT Boot floppy that points to the healthy drive.
Since then we have installed a new harddrive and
re-mirrored successfully

How do we fix the machine to boot from the harddisk and get
rid of this stupid floppy? I've tried an old NT trick of
creating a 10 meg FAT partition at the beginning of the new
drive, making it active and coping the floppy to it - nope
system says cannot find ntldr.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Rich whycan'titjustwork Moulton
 
Hello Folks,

Maybe someone can help me here. We have a Dell Windows
2000 server with 2 hotplug SCSI 36 gig drivers. This
server did not come with hardware RAID so we setup a
software mirror through Microsoft's disk manager.

Sure enough, a few months later, the primary harddisk
crashed.

We were able to boot back up with the aid of a newly
created FT Boot floppy that points to the healthy drive.
Since then we have installed a new harddrive and
re-mirrored successfully

How do we fix the machine to boot from the harddisk and get
rid of this stupid floppy? I've tried an old NT trick of
creating a 10 meg FAT partition at the beginning of the new
drive, making it active and coping the floppy to it - nope
system says cannot find ntldr.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Rich whycan'titjustwork Moulton
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Based on error message it soounds like the NFTS Bootsector is the
problem. Boot from CD into Recovery Console and run Fixboot.

Leonard Severt

Windows 2000 Server Setup Team
 
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