I'm in a disturbing situation. I've got a RAID 1 with dynamic disks (in WS2003 SBS) and 4 volumes, as you can see in the image, and the disk0 has been marked as redundancy failed, because it has bad sectors. So, I want to replace following David Shen steps, breaking (or removing) the mirror into the disk0 and then remaking the mirror into a new 2TB disk (that is already connected).
My problems are:
1. When I doble-click the failing disk (disk0)and press either Break mirror or Remove Mirror the Disk Management gives me an error: "Logical Disk Manager: The operation did not complete. Check the System Event Log for more information on the error".
I've tried with diskpart but I get the same error. How could I break the array to remake in the other disk??? If I boot with Windows Server 2003 installation disk and select R to start the Repair console the diskpart version is diferent, only is able to create
and remove partitions. Could I do it with the repair console included into Windows 7 installation disk??
2. If I've disk0 connected when I boot I can select boot from disk0 (doesn't work) or from disk1 (works). But if I disconnect disk0 I can't boot. I have tried to FIXMBR, BOOTFIX and BOOTCFG /REBUILD to disk1, with no luck. How could I get boot.ini menu
into disk1?? Copying the boot sector or the MBR from disk0 to disk1 with some special software?? For the momento I will be happy if I could create a boot floppy disk with the same boot.ini than in disk0, so I could disconnect disk0 and perhaps then be able
to break the mirror, isn't it??
Of course, this is very very very urgent, because this is a production server with exchante on it. If you help me you've accomodation for your whole life in a room of my house (Murcia, Spain, where the sun lives :)
PD: Yes, I've done some backups