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Software RAID1 - Failed Drive Issues
Our SBS 2003 server has been failing lately, with some random reboots and lockups. We have 2 IDE drives in a software RAID 1 for the OS (the array I'm worried about), and 2 SATA drives in a RAID 1 on a physical card. I tried a different IDE cable already. When we tried booting to each drive individually, one drive wasn't recognized by the BIOS or anything, whereas another one would start to load SBS 2003 but would hit a BSOD [Stop: 0x7B].
We are getting a replacement drive right now, but which drive do I clone? We are okay with being on just one drive (not in an array) for now, as we will be migrating to a new server after this fiasco, I just need to have the OS booted to move over mailboxes, etc. I am just worried about this whole software RAID. I'm used to physical cards. With a hardware RAID, you can still boot after removing one of the drives.
We are getting a replacement drive right now, but which drive do I clone? We are okay with being on just one drive (not in an array) for now, as we will be migrating to a new server after this fiasco, I just need to have the OS booted to move over mailboxes, etc. I am just worried about this whole software RAID. I'm used to physical cards. With a hardware RAID, you can still boot after removing one of the drives.
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Our backups had been failing for a long time [ntbackup] but we should have most/all of our stuff on Carbonite. I will see if I can view the contents of one of the hard drives to see what the boot.ini says.
Did you check the drive which the BIOS couldn't see on another PC? IF you can see it on another PC either, it is bad and then it is also clear which you should be replaced.
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Accepting my own answer because I figured it out on my own, with no help from other answers.
Can you post the contents of boot.ini from your c: drive?