| Subject: Fundamental flaw in Windows Server 2003 recovery. |
| Group: microsoft.public.windows.developer.winfx.fundamentals |
| Date: 9/10/2005 8:18:02 AM |
| From: "=?Utf-8?B?R2xvc3M=?=" [Email Address Protection] |
During the past week I encountered a major problem in Windows while trying to recover a crashed system. We have a server with two SCSI disk drives, Windows 2000 Server on the first and 2003 Server on the second. It was booted to Windows 2003. (1) The first drive crashed. (2) The system would not boot up from either the hard drive or from CD. (3) I removed the bad drive, changed the SCSI ID of the remaining drive to 0. (4) The system would still not boot. (5) I was forced to re-install the operating system, service pack, and all the software even though the remaining drive already had an operating system installed on it. This seems like a pretty fundamental thing, that in these days of huge capacity disk drives one should be able to install a second copy of the operating system on an alternative drive as a precautionary measure??? |
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