How do I fix an unintentionally improperly broken mirror so we can boot to Drive 0 Windows partition again? Here's the unfortunate scenario and its consequence.
1. We wanted to remove the mirror from our mirrored drives on Win2k3 where we had windows-based software mirror of partitions, one of which is/was our system partition.
2. In disk manager, we right-clicked on Drive-0's mirrored C: (System) partition with the intention of removing the Mirror from Drive-1. We clicked on "Remove Partition".
3. We saw window/dialog box asking which drive we wanted to remove from the mirror - and we clicked on drive 0 (didn't look carefully) and removed mirror from Drive 0.
4. IMMEDIATELY, we reselected the C partition to re-create the mirror.
5. After resynch finished, we shutdown the server for restart.
6. At reboot, we chose the original partition from Drive 0.
7. Windows started up and hung at the Windows Servier 2003 logos for about 15 mins before we used the crude power off/power on technique to restart. We were able to boot up and start windows in Drive 1's system partition.
We tried to bootup into Drive 0's partition again after resync and reboot, to no avail.
We can still boot to Drive 1's c paartion; disk manager reports that the drives are sync'ed (by not resysncing and describing the mirror as healthy).
How do we re-establish being able to boot to drive-0's windows opsys partition?? Note: Drive-0 does have an MBR apprpriately set. I dont think we have one on drive-1.
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