DMBoot error

August 17, 2007

on one of my ADs i have two dynamic mirrored disc

On boot up I'm receiving EventID:3 dmBoot failed to start volume Volumne1:c

and the same error for the f drive

however the OS (which is on C) boots and the AD is working.

how do i correct this - when i look in the disk management - it clearly has

a problem.

i found the knowledge base article for windows 2000 - but does it work on

windows 2003 sp2?

August 17, 2007

Re: DMBoot error

Hi Sandy,

Do the possible causes in the article (is it article 236086?) apply to you?

Microsoft does reference this article from within a Windows 2003 doc so that

would make me think that it would work for 2003... maybe someone else here

can confirm?

"Never delete or create a partition on a dynamic disk during Windows 2000,

Windows XP, or Windows Server 2003 text-mode Setup or when you start the

computer by using the Recovery Console. If you do so, permanent data loss

may occur. For more information about this issue, click the following

article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

as Dynamic Unreadable in Disk Management "

You may also want to try running a chkdsk to make sure theres no physical

issue with your drives (as well as changing your data cables with known good

ones).

Coraleigh Miller

"Sandy Ryan" <SandyRyan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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> on one of my ADs i have two dynamic mirrored disc

> On boot up I'm receiving EventID:3 dmBoot failed to start volume

> Volumne1:c

> and the same error for the f drive

> however the OS (which is on C) boots and the AD is working.

> how do i correct this - when i look in the disk management - it clearly

> has

> a problem.

> i found the knowledge base article for windows 2000 - but does it work on

> windows 2003 sp2?

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