Secondary drive has become boot partition on SBS 2011

Hi, I have just done a P to V on SBS2011 and the process as a whole went very well.

I have one issue though.  I have a W drive which its sole purpose is to hold WSUS content.  Some way along P to V the W drive has been marked as a system drive and seemingly BOOT files have been put onto it.

I tried removing the W drive from the hyper v config and the server fails to boot.

Can I simply copy these boot files to the C drive and then remove the W drive in the HyperV config?

thanks
timb551IT ManagerAsked:
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timb551IT ManagerAuthor Commented:
Can I use BCDBoot to set the C drive backup as the main boot partition?
rindiCommented:
You can temporarily remove W: from your VM, then boot the VM from the Paragon free Rescue Kit. It will try to repair the system so that it will boot from C:.

http://www.paragon-software.com/home/rk-free/
timb551IT ManagerAuthor Commented:
I have checked on another SBS2011 that i have and the system reserved partition is the system drive not the C drive.

Will paragon take this into account?
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rindiCommented:
If there is already such a reserved partition, yes. If there isn't will use C:\ for that. If you don't have a system reserved partition you won't be able to use encryption.
timb551IT ManagerAuthor Commented:
I do have one but the p to v have given it a drive letter for some reason. Should I be removing the drive letter from it?
rindiCommented:
Try removing the letter.
noxchoGlobal Support CoordinatorCommented:
Can you take screen shot of Windows Disk Management on hyper-v guest and post it here?
If you have the msr on the same HDD where C is then all you need is to set this MSR partition active and W as inactive.
timb551IT ManagerAuthor Commented:
Here is a screen shot.

As you can see the W drive which is meant to be just for wsus content has become the active system drive.

The system reserved now has a drive letter.
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rindiCommented:
As I mentioned, try removing the drive letter from the system reserved partition, then use the rk tool kit to try to fix the system (remove W an D temporarily from the VM For this). After you have run the tool, add D back to the VM and try booting normally. If it won't boot, add W back too, and when inside Windows give the system reserved partition a drive letter temporarily. Then copy the \boot folder to the system reserved partition, and make it active in diskmanagement. Also make W inactive. After that remove the letter again and try booting into windows.
timb551IT ManagerAuthor Commented:
I will take a copy of the vm first and then try this on that , I'll get back to you. Thanks
noxchoGlobal Support CoordinatorCommented:
I suggest you the following steps:
A) copy the BootMgr file and Boot folder from W to C drive.
B) set the C drive active
C) set the W drive inactive.
D) turn off the vm and switch the drive places or simply disconnect W drive.
E) boot the vm and see if it boots. If it says you need to repair the Windows then start VM from Windows installation DVD and go to repair - fix startup. It must boot then.

I am afraid RK tool wont work on server OS. Have not tried it yet on MS server OS. But free versions usualy don't.

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timb551IT ManagerAuthor Commented:
Hi noxcho what about the system reserved partition. Doesn't that normally hold the boot details?
noxchoGlobal Support CoordinatorCommented:
Yes, it does. But it is on different drive as well. Why is it there? It must be normally on the same drive where C drive is.
But you can copy the data BootMGR and Boot folder from MSR to C and set it active as suggested before.
timb551IT ManagerAuthor Commented:
Hi Noxcho

I followed your steps and as you thought it wont boot.

I booted to the DVD but when i try to repair my operating system isnt listed.
noxchoGlobal Support CoordinatorCommented:
Because it is running on RAID? Are you using the RAID?
Does it say that no OS has been found?
Have you downloaded the Rescue Kit?
timb551IT ManagerAuthor Commented:
The under lying server is running raid but this is a virtual server.

I guess i can try adding the raid drivers to see if it works.

It just doesnt list an OS for me to be able to carry on.

regards

Tim
noxchoGlobal Support CoordinatorCommented:
Ok, did you set the C: partition active as you copied the data? Try to start command line in Repair mode of the DVD boot and using Diskpart.exe set the correct drive active.
timb551IT ManagerAuthor Commented:
I copies the files from the W drive to the C drive.

I then set the C as active.

I then powered down the server and remove W and the server failed to boot.
timb551IT ManagerAuthor Commented:
I am into the command line repair area but not sure what to do now.
timb551IT ManagerAuthor Commented:
i tried setting the partition on the c drive as active but the server still fails to boot
timb551IT ManagerAuthor Commented:
ah ha!

I ran bootrec /rebuildbcd and that seems to have worked.

The server is now booting.
timb551IT ManagerAuthor Commented:
All looks better

Should I be removing the drive letter from system reserved now?
timb551IT ManagerAuthor Commented:
noxchoGlobal Support CoordinatorCommented:
Sorry, was on the way home.
But you did it :) Well done.
You can now even delete System Reserved partition, it is not doing any function there.
timb551IT ManagerAuthor Commented:
do i need to recreate it?
timb551IT ManagerAuthor Commented:
also thank you very much for your help.  Im glad i had a copy VM to try this on before doing it live though :)
rindiCommented:
Whether you need the system reserved disk really depends. It is required if you are using bitlocker to encrypt your disks (but then you'd have to do what I mentioned earlier and move the /boot folder to it and make it the active disks). You you won't be using encryption, then you don't need it.
noxchoGlobal Support CoordinatorCommented:
At the moment - you dont need it. As rindi said it is used for bitlocker but if no encryption is used then you are good to delete it or simply remove the drive letter.
timb551IT ManagerAuthor Commented:
Hi Guys

Would you be happy with shared points as you both helped me get there in the end.

thanks

Tim
noxchoGlobal Support CoordinatorCommented:
Thanks Tim.
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