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by mayur 1 view

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I have windows Nt 4.0 O.S.(NTFS). After mirroring the system partition, the server was restarted and it came with the message : "Missing Operating System".

Fdisk shows both the drives as active and their is no way to turn off the second drive asactive partition. I don't have a startup disk to boot the system. Please advise

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by timber

Your boot.ini file got corrupt or is pointing to the wrong physical HD. The best way to fix this is. Install NT into a new directory. Edit the boot.ini file to point the original install to the correct drive and physical HD. If you have another server that is similar scsi / ide and the same drive configuration you can use the boot.ini from that server as a model.

Reboot the server you will have two Windows NT Server selections at the boot screen I can't remember right off which is which but select one or the other if that one isn't right reboot and select the other one. When the server is back to the original installation delete the directory that you installed NT into for the recovery to free the space back up.

I've had to do this a few times if you have questions e-mail me @ timber@choice.net

Good Luck....

by mtnsqs

Get the DOS-NTFS system - you have to pay for the version that gives you the ability to modify NTFS files form a DOS boot floppy. Then fix the Boot.ini file that way.
Search the web for NTFS-DOS and you'll find it.

Alternatively, make a set of startup disks from the NT CD on another NT machine, and use them to boot hte machine and try running repair

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