Windows NT replacing a failed primary mirror

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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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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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