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SYMPTOMSAfter you make the previously shadowed partition of a mirrored system partition into the primary partition, when you restart your computer, it stops responding (hangs). Only the initial system and peripheral BIOS startup text is displayed on the monitor. CAUSE
Windisk is the utility that manages disk partitioning in Windows NT
Server. When it establishes a mirrored partition on a previously unused
disk, it does not check for the existence of valid boot code in the Master
Boot Record. At startup, the system BIOS of an Intel 80x86-based computer
expects the Master Boot Record to contain executable code which is
responsible for locating and passing control to the boot sector on the
active partition. When this code is not present, the processor attempts to
execute random memory and the computer hangs.
WORKAROUND
Through the use of a Windows NT "boot floppy", the operating system can
still be initialized. For information on how to create such a floppy, see
pages 161 and 162 of the "Windows NT Advanced Server Concepts and Planning
Guide," or see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
ARTICLE-ID: Q119467 It is possible to initialize the boot code in the Master Boot Record by using WINDISK.EXE to modify the disk partition structure. When you manually make and format a primary partition Windisk.exe will initialize the master Boot Records boot code. STATUSMicrosoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Windows NT Server. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available. Additional query words: prodnt repair tshoot fdisk mbr
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