No Primary Partition

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Hi,
I wqs running with my scsi c: drive mirrored, disk0 and
disk1. Disk0 went bad and disk1 keep running.. so far
cool...
So I got a new drive and did the following:
1: Shutdown and removed the bad disk, and made the good
disk (disk1), disk0
2: I have a boot diskette so I booted with that disk.
so far so good.
3: I broke the mirror
4: Shutdown - installed the newe drive.
5: Mirrored the drives.
Now the only problem is I don't have a primary partition
to set "active" so I have to boot from the floppy.
So, the Q is. How do I make the partition on drive0 a
primary partition so I can mark it active.
Thanks...
 
Hi -

The problem probably isn't that you don't have a primary partition to mark
active; its that you don't have boot code in Sector 0.

If you create a parition on the new drive first, then delete the partition,
then mirror, you should be able to avoid this problem.

hth.
 
When you boot without the floppy what error message do you
get?
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Hi -

The problem probably isn't that you don't have a primary partition to mark
active; its that you don't have boot code in Sector 0.

If you create a parition on the new drive first, then delete the partition,
then mirror, you should be able to avoid this problem.

hth.
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Joe said:
Hi,
I wqs running with my scsi c: drive mirrored, disk0 and
disk1. Disk0 went bad and disk1 keep running.. so far
cool...
So I got a new drive and did the following:
1: Shutdown and removed the bad disk, and made the good
disk (disk1), disk0
2: I have a boot diskette so I booted with that disk.
so far so good.
3: I broke the mirror
4: Shutdown - installed the newe drive.
5: Mirrored the drives.
Now the only problem is I don't have a primary partition
to set "active" so I have to boot from the floppy.
So, the Q is. How do I make the partition on drive0 a
primary partition so I can mark it active.
Thanks...
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