In article Q236086, it mentions,
"use a disk editing tool (such as DiskProbe) and save a copy of the master
boot record (sector-0 of the physical disk) to a floppy disk, and then
change the incorrect system or boot partition system-ID back to a type
0x42."
How do I go about changing the system-ID to a type 0x42? At this point, it
doesn't really matter if I blow the server away or not, but I'd like to see
if I can recover the data first (this is kinda fun). I've searched the help
in Disk Probe but haven't found an answer. Can anyone give me a quick
run-through on how to do this?
Regards,
Sean Martin, MCSE
Network Administrator
Ribelin Lowell & Company
Insurance Brokers, Inc.
3111 C Street, Suite 300
Anchorage, Alaska 99503
Ph: (907) 561-1250
Fax: (907) 561-4315
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-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 9:07 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Windows 2000 Pro - Changing from basic disk to dynamic disk
All great replies. I appreciate the feedback.
As I stated before, this is just an old clone box. It's a single processor
machine. I have attempted the repair process from the CD, no luck. I
installed Windows 2000 to another partition and got the disk to boot. In
disk management, it shows both disks as being Dynamic but states that
they're both unreadable. I then installed the Recovery console as startup
option and booted to that. After running a Chkdsk, my 2nd disk is readable
again, however, the boot disk still states unreadable. There should be two
partitions on the disk: The previous boot partition, and the partition I
created with the remaining space during the re-install. I would think at
least the 2nd created partition would be readable, but it's not.
I found article Q236086 and am currently working through it. It mentions
using DiskProbe to perform some things. Is this a third-party utility or one
that's available with Win2k or the resource kit?
Thanks again for all the responses. My hope is slowly dwindling, but maybe
I'll have some stroke of luck.
Regards,
Sean Martin, MCSE
Network Administrator
Ribelin Lowell & Company
Insurance Brokers, Inc.
3111 C Street, Suite 300
Anchorage, Alaska 99503
Ph: (907) 561-1250
Fax: (907) 561-4315
Cell: (907) 229-0885
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 4:41 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Windows 2000 Pro - Changing from basic disk to dynamic disk
Wait is that a Multi Processor Machine? It looks like you might be
trying to use a Multiproc NtKrnl on a single Proc PC.
Try Creating a new boot disk on a Single Processor Machine.
Jeremiah
-----Original Message-----
From: kentspencer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 7:49 AM
To: ntsysadmin
Cc: kentspencer
Subject: RE: Windows 2000 Pro - Changing from basic disk to dynamic disk
.. you're right. Don't know what I was thinking other
than it's early and I haven't had the 1st cup. You
can't extend volumes. Is this a Compaq server or
workstation with the OEM area? I know you might
have problems due to this.
Kent
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Just an FYI
>
> Boot and system partitions. You can upgrade a basic
> disk containing the
> system or active partitions to a dynamic disk. After
> the disk is
> upgraded, these partitions become simple system or
> active volumes
> (after restarting the computer). You cannot mark an
> existing dynamic
> volume as active. You can upgrade a basic disk
> containing the boot
> partition (which contains the Windows 2000 operating
> system) to a
> dynamic disk. After the disk is upgraded, the boot
> partition becomes a
> simple boot volume (after restarting the computer).
> You cannot upgrade
> a disk that contains the system or boot partition if
> that disk also
> contains part of a spanned volume (volume set),
> striped volume (stripe
> set), mirrored volume (mirror set), or RAID-5 volume
> (stripe set with
> parity).
>
> Upgrade failures. If you upgrade a boot disk, or if
> a volume or
> partition is in use on the disk you attempt to
> upgrade, the computer
> must be restarted for the upgrade to succeed. If any
> of the following
> conditions occur, the upgrade can fail after the
> computer restarts:
> If you disconnect all existing dynamic disks while
> the computer is
> restarting.
> If you replace a disk or set of disks to be upgraded
> while the computer
> is restarting. (Disk Management detects that the
> disk has changed and
> the upgrade may fail.)
> If you change the disk layout of a disk to be
> upgraded.
> If the disk has I/O errors during the upgrade.
>
> Mirroring the boot and system volumes. After you
> upgrade the disk
> containing the boot and system partitions to a
> dynamic disk, you can
> mirror the boot and system volumes onto another
> dynamic disk. Then, if
> the disk containing the boot and system volumes
> fails, you can start
> the computer from the disk containing the mirrors of
> these volumes. For
> more information, see Fixing a boot failure
>
>
> Jeremiah
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kentspencer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 6:45 AM
> To: ntsysadmin
> Cc: kentspencer
> Subject: RE: Windows 2000 Pro - Changing from basic
> disk to dynamic disk
>
>
> .. your memory is correct. And there is no way to
> revert to basic without starting from scratch. I
> hope you have backups.
> Kent
>
> --- "McConnell, Derek W. - Perot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > If memory serves me correctly... your boot drive
> > cannot be a dynamic disk
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Sean Martin
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 3:46 PM
> > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > Subject: Windows 2000 Pro - Changing from basic
> disk
> > to dynamic disk
> >
> >
> > Ok, the lack of Windows 2000 training is
> definitely
> > noticeable in this
> > problem....
> >
> > I have an old clone box (PII 450, 256mb RAM, 2
> > maxtor 10gb IDE Drives). I
> > recently had a guy who was working for me for
> about
> > a month, upgrade this
> > box from NT 4 to Win2k pro for II5. This kid
> created
> > a great intranet site
> > for us. Everything was working ok until I started
> > poking around. I noticed
> > the kid created a single 4gb ntfs partition and
> just
> > left the remaining disk
> > space untouched. I wanted to to create a spanned
> > volume set using the rest
> > of the disk space on disk 0 and disk 1. To do
> this,
> > I found that I had to
> > upgrade them to Dynamic disks before hand. Well, I
> > upgraded the 2nd disk, no
> > problem. Updated the 1st disk with the boot
> > partition and then rebooted as
> > instructed. Upon boot up, I see the following
> occur:
> >
> > Searching for boot record from floppy... Not Found
> > Searching for boot record from CD-Rom... Not Found
> > Searching for boot record from IDE-0... OK
> > Boot failure from previous device
> >
> > Boot failure
> > Insert BOOT diskette in A:
> > Press any key when ready (I put in my
> just-created
> > windows 2000 boot disk)
> >
> > Searching for boot record from floppy... OK
> >
> > Windows 2000 setup begins.....
> >
> > Then I receive: File \ntkrnlmp.exe could not be
> > loaded.
> > The error code is 7.
> > Setup cannot continue. Press
> > any key to Exit.
> >
> >
> > The process then begins all over again. So what
> are
> > my options? I'd rather
> > not blow this machine away since I don't have a
> > backup of the current
> > Intranet site. The server was just finalized late
> > last night. This kid that
> > created the site has copies on his laptop, but
> he's
> > on his way back to North
> > Carolina.
> >
> > So far I haven't found anything relative to
> > upgrading dynamic disks but I'm
> > still searching. Thanks in advance for any help
> > y'all can provide.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Sean Martin, MCSE
> > Network Administrator
> > Ribelin Lowell & Company
> > Insurance Brokers, Inc.
> > 3111 C Street, Suite 300
> > Anchorage, Alaska 99503
> > Ph: (907) 561-1250
> > Fax: (907) 561-4315
> > Cell: (907) 229-0885
> > Email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
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