Technology Notebook

Windows NT/2K::Boot Diskette for Mirrored Disk Volumes

Problem
I have mirrored boot/system volume on two different disks. If the primary disk fails I can't boot.
Solution
Setup boot disk and modify the boot.ini to use the other disk. Details below may vary depending on specifics of machine.
Steps
1. Format floppy on W2K(NT) machine
2. Copy NTLDR, NTDETECT.COM, and BOOT.INI to diskette. Copy BOOTSECT.DOS and NTBOOTDD.SYS if they are required. If you do this from the machine you want to boot, copy them if they exist.
3. Edit BOOT.INI on diskette to point to the second disk. For example:
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server" /fastdetect
becomes
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(2)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server" /fastdetect