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Boot from mirrored IDE Drive

I recently had mirrored SCSI 8 GB disks in my win2k server. I supected one/both of them to be failing and broke the mirror and removed 1 - Then I added a 80GB IDE as and new drive and mirrored the c partition from the SCSI drive. Since I wanted a larger D partition - I created a new/larger partition on the IDE drive and copied the data over from the SCSI drive. I then removed the original SCSI drive and attempted to boot the server from the IDE drive. I received a 'press any key to reboot sytem'. Hum, I finally got the system to boot using a Boot floppy and the server is running.. Not a long term solution.. I'm going to add a 2nd 80GB drive and mirror it with the currently installed 80 GB IDE drive.

I thought I might run the 'fixboot /mbr' command from the Recovery Console-Is this a good idea?

****How/Can I make the hard drive boot?

Thanks in Advance for any help..

e_sandrs

My first guess is that the partition on the new drive isn't active.

If so, go under Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Storage, Disk Management. Right-click on the partition you want to boot off of and select "Make Partition Active".

I suspect you'll have to reboot for the change to occur.

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