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how do i avoid the 'inaccessible boot device' error when i upgrade my array to bigger disks - Help!
Hi, first sorry for my poor english.
My original configuration of my server have a set of two 40 gigs ide hard disks mounted on a promise Raid (Mirror mode), with Windows 2000 server installed on it. The system is very stable, and works without problems since a couple of years.
I want to upgrade my hard disks because I run in low disk space. I just buyed two identical 120 gigs hard disks to replace my two 40 gigs. I stopped my server and replaced one of my 40 gigs with a 120 gigs, and rebuilt my array without any error. After the successful message, I stopped my server again, and replaced my second 40 gigs with my second and unused 120 gigs drive, and rebuilt my array again to make a mirror of my first 120 gigs drive. After the successful message, I rebooted my server. Windows 2000 starts to load and suddenly - bang! A blue screen with the mention "***STOP 0x0000007B
INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE..
I also tried a recent version of symantec Ghost enterprise instead of using the raid's utility to test if it was not the problem, but this try was not successful : No problem with the imaging process, but when I reboot with my new hard drives, the same error message appears. When I reinstall my old 40 gigs HD's , no problem at all, all works fine.
My server's configuration :
Intel Board with Dual Intel Xeon 2.2 gig
Ram : 1 gig DDR266
Promise ATA Raid
2 ATA HD's mounted in RAID-1 (Mirror Mode)
1 Floppy
1 CD-Rom
Please help me. I dont want to start over with a clean install because it's a web server with a lot of domains on it. I serched different solutions on the web, and I don't find anything that it can help me.
Thanks for your help.
My original configuration of my server have a set of two 40 gigs ide hard disks mounted on a promise Raid (Mirror mode), with Windows 2000 server installed on it. The system is very stable, and works without problems since a couple of years.
I want to upgrade my hard disks because I run in low disk space. I just buyed two identical 120 gigs hard disks to replace my two 40 gigs. I stopped my server and replaced one of my 40 gigs with a 120 gigs, and rebuilt my array without any error. After the successful message, I stopped my server again, and replaced my second 40 gigs with my second and unused 120 gigs drive, and rebuilt my array again to make a mirror of my first 120 gigs drive. After the successful message, I rebooted my server. Windows 2000 starts to load and suddenly - bang! A blue screen with the mention "***STOP 0x0000007B
INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE..
I also tried a recent version of symantec Ghost enterprise instead of using the raid's utility to test if it was not the problem, but this try was not successful : No problem with the imaging process, but when I reboot with my new hard drives, the same error message appears. When I reinstall my old 40 gigs HD's , no problem at all, all works fine.
My server's configuration :
Intel Board with Dual Intel Xeon 2.2 gig
Ram : 1 gig DDR266
Promise ATA Raid
2 ATA HD's mounted in RAID-1 (Mirror Mode)
1 Floppy
1 CD-Rom
Please help me. I dont want to start over with a clean install because it's a web server with a lot of domains on it. I serched different solutions on the web, and I don't find anything that it can help me.
Thanks for your help.
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No chance, same Problem ;-(
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OOps I didn't solved my problem and accepted Rindi's Answer. I will re-open the question
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