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rindi,<br />
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I can use fdisk from the recovery console. Once the D:\ is active, do i need to copy boot.ini, ntdetect.com, ntldr onto it, or will fixboot do that?<br />
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Thanks
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rindi,

I can use fdisk from the recovery console. Once the D:\ is active, do i need to copy boot.ini, ntdetect.com, ntldr onto it, or will fixboot do that?

Thanks

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I don't think that you could move system files from C: to D: manually. <br />
Best and shortest way is to run repair installation of Windows onto D:, but first remove or hide C: volume so the install process could not put there files accidentally.
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I don't think that you could move system files from C: to D: manually.
Best and shortest way is to run repair installation of Windows onto D:, but first remove or hide C: volume so the install process could not put there files accidentally.

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I have a Windows 2003 server with several partitions on a two disk RAID 1 array. &nbsp;C:\, the boot drive, located on the array contained boot.ini, ntdetect.com, ntldr and C:\windows.<br />
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I suffered a machine crash and the registry files in c:\windows were corrupted so I couldn't boot windows. &nbsp;To get up and running quickly, I installed a non RAID disk and installed a new copy of Windows on to it. &nbsp;This new disk is D:\, but the boot files are still located on the old C:\ within the array.<br />
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I'm now having file corruption issues on that RAID array and would like to delete and rebuild it this weekend. &nbsp;In the process, the C:\ containing the boot files will be deleted. &nbsp;So my question is how do I make the D:\ the boot disk?<br />
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Thanks
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I have a Windows 2003 server with several partitions on a two disk RAID 1 array.  C:\, the boot drive, located on the array contained boot.ini, ntdetect.com, ntldr and C:\windows.

I suffered a machine crash and the registry files in c:\windows were corrupted so I couldn't boot windows.  To get up and running quickly, I installed a non RAID disk and installed a new copy of Windows on to it.  This new disk is D:\, but the boot files are still located on the old C:\ within the array.

I'm now having file corruption issues on that RAID array and would like to delete and rebuild it this weekend.  In the process, the C:\ containing the boot files will be deleted.  So my question is how do I make the D:\ the boot disk?

Thanks

Moving Windows 2003 boot drive

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System Utilities

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).

Windows Server 2003

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