RAID controller driver missing

[Guest JE]

Hi All,

 

One of our support person accidently uninstalled Array controller

drivers (from Device Manager) instead of removing Drivers for HBA

card. This server has RAID 1 - with single array.

 

The server was rebooted after the uninstallation and it is not finding

the hard disk & not booting up.

 

Please suggest me a procedure to reinstall this array controller, with

out rebuilding the server.

 

Any help is highly appriciated.

 

Regards,

JE

[Guest Dave Patrick]

Re: RAID controller driver missing

 

Try loading the controller driver from floppy. For the floppy to

successfully boot Windows 2003 the disk must contain the "NT" boot sector.

Format a diskette (on a Windows 2003 machine, not a DOS/Win9x, so the "NT"

boot sector gets written to the floppy), then copy ntldr, ntdetect.com, and

boot.ini to it. Edit the boot.ini to give it a correct ARC path for the

machine you wish to boot.

 

In order for this to work you'll want to change the arc path in boot.ini

from multi syntax to scsi syntax to indicate that Windows 2003 will load a

boot device driver and use that driver to access the boot partition. Then

also copy the correct manufacturer scsi driver to the floppy but renamed to

ntbootdd.sys

 

Something like this below;

 

 

[boot loader]

timeout=10

default=scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS

[operating systems]

scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows 2003 0,1"

scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Windows 2003 0,2"

scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows 2003 1,1"

scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Windows 2003 1,2"

 

 

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Regards,

 

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.

Microsoft Certified Professional

Microsoft MVP [Windows]

http://www.microsoft.com/protect

 

"JE" wrote:

> Hi All,

>

> One of our support person accidently uninstalled Array controller

> drivers (from Device Manager) instead of removing Drivers for HBA

> card. This server has RAID 1 - with single array.

>

> The server was rebooted after the uninstallation and it is not finding

> the hard disk & not booting up.

>

> Please suggest me a procedure to reinstall this array controller, with

> out rebuilding the server.

>

> Any help is highly appriciated.

>

> Regards,

> JE

[Guest Dave Patrick]

Re: RAID controller driver missing

 

"the correct manufacturer scsi driver "

 

I should have said "raid" but you get the idea.

 

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Regards,

 

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.

Microsoft Certified Professional

Microsoft MVP [Windows]

http://www.microsoft.com/protect

[Guest JE]

Re: RAID controller driver missing

 

Thanks Dave, The server is up !

[Guest Dave Patrick]

Re: RAID controller driver missing

 

Great news. You're welcome.

 

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Regards,

 

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.

Microsoft Certified Professional

Microsoft MVP [Windows]

http://www.microsoft.com/protect

 

"JE" wrote:

> Thanks Dave, The server is up !

>