I've already given up on this, but would be interested to know for future builds if there is a solution out there, even if it's a 3rd-Party software tool.
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Asked by:. Archived Forums. Therefore, disk performance is the fastest on a RAID 0 volume as compared to any other type of disk configuration. On the View menu, point to Top , and then click Disk List. On the View menu, point to Bottom , and then click Graphical View. The Disk Description pane which is displayed in gray is positioned on the left side of the volume description, which is displayed in color.
The disk description contains information about each disk's disk number, whether it's a basic or dynamic configuration, its size, and its status online or offline.
The volume descriptions are color-coded. They hold information about each volume, such as the drive letter if assigned , whether the volume is allocated or unallocated, the partition or volume size, and the health status of the volume. If the disks that are going to be involved in the striped volume are already dynamic disks, proceed to the "How to Convert to Striped Volume" section of this article.
You must be logged on as an administrator or a member of the Administrators group to complete this procedure. If your computer is connected to a network, network policy settings may also prevent you from completing this procedure. In this scenario, there are two disks on the computer, Disk 0 and Disk 1. Both disks are dynamic disks and have at least 1 gigabyte GB of free unallocated space on each disk for a total volume of 2 GB.
In the lower-right pane of the Disk Management tool, right-click the free, unallocated volume space on either disk, and then click Create Volume. In the left pane under Select Two or More Disks , a list is displayed that contains all disks that have enough free, unallocated space to participate in the striped volume.
In the right pane under Selected , the disk that you right-clicked in step 1 is displayed. All disks that are displayed in the right pane are labeled Selected. Since you didn't elaborate on what happens when the system "fails to boot", I'm going to take a stab in the dark. A typical symptom in this kind of situation is a blinking cursor with no further progress after POST.
If this is what's happening, boot to the recovery console with the secondary disk attached to the primary controller and run a "FIXMBR". That should get you booting normally. If you move the second disk to the first controller you'll find the system will boot off it just as usual. There are a few circumstances where this won't work. I recall the Dell system partition causes problems. I guess you're asking how you'd get someone else to boot the server, that is you don't want them going near the server with a screwdriver!
You just need to get the server to boot off something that allows it to run the boot loader and see the boot.
If you use Dells then insist on them having a DRAC card as this can create a virtual floppy disk and boot the server from it. I think the Compaq Lights Out controller can do something similar. If your server bios supports booting from a USB drive or flash drive you could use that in place of a floppy drive. Just make sure the boot. I had the same issue. I have a client's server where they used software raid 1.
The second drive which I cloned to a backup would give me the blinking cursor whenever I tried to boot up off of it. Well, I backed up that drive like I mentioned earlier, and booted up off the install CD.
It fixed it and was able to boot back up into the OS and everything is as if nothing happened. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.
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