replacing a failed primary mirror

[Guest lineone]

I have SBS 2000 running with two software mirrored partitions. The first

software mirrored set of drives are the C drive and contain system info. The

second software mirrored set of drives is the D drive and contains data.

 

The primary mirror of the C drive set is showing a bad block. What is the

best practice for replacing it?

 

Please include whether at any time during the replacement process the D

drives should be taken off line.

[Guest TP]

Re: replacing a failed primary mirror

 

Hi,

 

You should post your question to one of the following groups:

 

microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs

microsoft.public.windows.server.general

 

This group is dedicated to Windows Terminal Services. In addition,

I strongly recommend you use hardware RAID in the future--it will

make your life easier.

 

-TP

 

lineone wrote:

> I have SBS 2000 running with two software mirrored partitions. The

> first software mirrored set of drives are the C drive and contain

> system info. The second software mirrored set of drives is the D

> drive and contains data.

>

> The primary mirror of the C drive set is showing a bad block. What

> is the best practice for replacing it?

>

> Please include whether at any time during the replacement process the

> D drives should be taken off line.

[Guest Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Re: replacing a failed primary mirror

 

lineone <lineone@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> I have SBS 2000 running with two software mirrored partitions. The

> first software mirrored set of drives are the C drive and contain

> system info. The second software mirrored set of drives is the D

> drive and contains data.

>

> The primary mirror of the C drive set is showing a bad block. What

> is the best practice for replacing it?

>

> Please include whether at any time during the replacement process the

> D drives should be taken off line.

 

Try posting in microsoft.public.backoffice.smallbiz2000.

[Guest jd]

Re: replacing a failed primary mirror

 

break the mirror.

you cannot remirror bad blocks

I would recommend running spinrite on each drive or ghosting the drive to a

new seagate.

If spinrite fixes the bad block, remirror it to a new drive (prefer seagate

cuz seagate comes with acronis tools).

good luck.

 

"lineone" <lineone@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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> I have SBS 2000 running with two software mirrored partitions. The first

> software mirrored set of drives are the C drive and contain system info.

The

> second software mirrored set of drives is the D drive and contains data.

>

> The primary mirror of the C drive set is showing a bad block. What is the

> best practice for replacing it?

>

> Please include whether at any time during the replacement process the D

> drives should be taken off line.

>

>

>

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