![]() I can easily create the mirror and boot from both hard drive. In my experience to get it worked, that small partition should be mirrored as well. Mine doesn't have a separate partition for boot, but it has a small partition named "System Reserved". IMHO, having last nights backup is better than having two copies of the same user-error screw up. Because I think you are actually more likely to have a case of user error, or have something go wrong at the OS level than you are to have an actual hard drive failure. Set Windows Backup to run a backup every night. IMHO, the best thing to do with desktops in this situation is to just have a backup hard drive. ![]() ![]() Software RAID sucks, especially trying to boot from it. Because you don't want to be messing around with the only good working drive you have. Get a new hard drive, and do a fresh install of Windows, and recover the data off the drive. I'm not sure what your situation is, but if this is a scenario where you had a failure, and are actually trying to recover the data. IMHO, the best bet is to get a replacement hard drive, install Windows to it, and be thankful you don't have any data loss. Text Drive A: |-BOOT-|-C DRIVE-|ĭrive B: |-C DRIVE-| I just need to figure out why after plugging back the first hard drive, the windows couldn't boot from Secondary Plex. Technically I think my first question will answer the second one. After Mirror is completed, again both #1 : Windows7 and #2 Secondary Plex boots to the windows without any issues.ġ)after plugged in back the first hard drive, PC could be booted using only #1 which refers to the newly again attached hard drive and #2 Secondary plex which was stayed at its own place without any change, couldn't boot.Ģ) why after booting to the windows the second hard drive which was all the time at its own placed, was detecting as a foreign hard disk?! Windows detected the second hard drive (Which was all the time at its place) as a foreign disk, so I had to delete partitions and add mirror again. When I booted to the windows another weird thing happened. I couldn't understand why, i wish I could. Windows 7 worked, but Secondary plex didn't work. When I attached the 1st hard drive again, the #3 disappeared and I had two options: 1.Windows 7 2.Secondary Plex. When I booted to #3 everything worked fine. #1 makes a lot of sense why didn't boot but for #2 I'm clueless. So I had 1.Windows 7 2.Secondary plex 3.Secondary Plex. I found another "Secondary plex" has been added. I had the first hard drive plugged off, then tried to boot to the windows. I tested and came into some weird result. In past for Windows server 2003 I was able to boot with any live linux and then add/change the bootloader in boot.ini.Īny help would highly appreciated as I'm really frustrated with this. I beleive there should be a way for doing that. The boot loader in the second hard drive. Technically BIOS tries to boot from second hard drive but simply it can't find the boot loader.Ģ. ![]() I changed it to second hard drive and it didn't work. My understanding was that I should deal with two different things:ġ. In a summary if I have the main hard drive unplugged, can't boot to windows any longer. So my question is that how would you deal with this issue in this scenario? I also ran the windows 7 disk and did a repair, it didn't help either. I tried to use the BCD tool inside Windows recovery disk. Unfortunately from windows 7 there is no boot.ini only built-in BCD tool. I tried to use tools like Gparted live to boot and then change the boot.ini file no success. The issue comes in when I have the primary hard drive unplugged. I can start the windows from both of them. Everything goes fine and RAID 1 is established with no issues. I have two partitions, C and D which C holding Windows and D stores my data. First I had Windows 7 ultimate installed on Disk1 and then from Disk management converted both hard drives to Dynamic disks and then created the RAID 1 (Add Mirror). Have two Hard drives ( Both same size, same brand) connected to the port SATA1 and SATA2 on my motherboard. In this scenario I have a Lenovo desktop. So that is the first explanation why I'm using software RAID on my desktops. Let's first I explain that I know hardware RAID is much better, I use it on my servers but company is not willing to accept this cost on the desktops. Now I want to create a step-by-step procedure to have this solved for all the time. It is kinda of funny that software RAID is the only issue I face all the time in IT/Networking business.
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