Booting From Mirror After Primary Partition Is Lost
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 113977 If the partition containing the Windows NT Server system files is mirrored and then lost, you can use a fault tolerant boot floppy disk to restart Windows NT Server and access the mirror of the lost drive.
Hard
drive failure
While manufacturers would like you to believe hard drive
failures are a rare event, the reality is quite different. When
Survey.com polled 1,293 IT staff and business executives, the
majority had experienced computer downtime in the previous year
due to disk drive failure. Also, 30.3 percent of the time the
computer was down for more than 24 hours. Storage explosions,
unsinkable drives and disk crashes © hard drive reliability
still leaves a lot to be desired. What can you do about it? Source:
ServerWorld
How
To Guard Against Boot Failure With a Windows NT Boot Disk
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 101668 How To Guard Against
Boot Failure With a Windows NT Boot Disk
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HOW TO: Recover an Accidentally Deleted NTFS or FAT32 Dynamic Volume
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 245725 - If a Windows 2000 NTFS or FAT32 dynamic volume is accidentally deleted by using the Disk Management snap-in, you may be able to recover the volume and the data contained on it. You can do this only if a new volume has not been created and
formatted in its place. When Disk Management removes a volume
from a dynamic disk, it erases the volume's file-system boot
sector (sector-0 of the volume), and then removes the volume
entry from the Disk Management private region database, leaving
the rest of the drive intact (including the data). Because both
NTFS and FAT32 volumes maintain backup boot sectors, you can
recover the volume by restoring the boot sector.
How to Recover Mirroring Windows NT Using IDE Devices
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 141702 This article provides the steps necessary to recover mirroring using IDE devices under Windows NT. Use this article in conjunction with the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base, which explains how to create an Windows NT Fat
Recovering
from Failed System Drive with Non-Default %SystemRoot% Folder
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 235478 - When you install
Windows 2000 by booting from either the Windows 2000
installation CD-ROM or the four Setup floppy disks, Setup does
not prompt you for or allow you to change the target
installation folder name.
Recovering
a Volume Set after a Drive Crashes
Advice from a reader. Source: Windows & .NET Magazine (Aug
1999)
Using Emergency Repair Disk With Fault Tolerant Partitions
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 113976 After creating volume sets, stripe sets with parity, stripe sets without parity, or mirror sets, always save the disk configuration information to the Windows NT Emergency Repair Disk.
Using Norton Disk Edit to Backup Your Master Boot Record
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 166997 - The master boot record is required to boot your computer. Having a current backup of your master boot record is an excellent way to ensure that, in the event of a virus or hardware failure, you will be able to recover your system in the shortest amount of time possible
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