I have a machine running W2K Advanced Server. This weekend I rebooted and the machine failed to boot up the OS. The error I get is: "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER". I then booted from the W2K cd and that started successfully, but now I get the following message: "Couldn’t open the boot partition to check for a signature. System is checking hardware configuration .." It then proceeds to Windows 2000 Setup. I have run both fixmbr and fixboot in the Recovery Console but neither has solved my problem. I am running 4 SATA hard drives in a RAID 1 config (mirrored) through a Rocket RAID controller card (1820A). The boot drive is not recognized in the BIOS and am thinking that that is why the fixmbr and fixboot did not work? This is a production server which was setup by my predecessor, I’m new here, and even though I don’t like the way it was setup I have to deal with the cards that were dealt. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

You can't have 4 drives in a hardware mirror. Only two. Need to go back and reevaluate the hardware config. Clearly you lost your boot drive. No software can address a physical failure. If mirrored you should be able to set the shadow drive as the primary and boot the system. Do you have backups? Imagine the power if you knew how to internet search

Sorry, I have 4 drives in 2 separate mirrors. I will have to lookup how to boot into the shadow, thank you for that info. I don't have a backup per say because I don't have any data on this server, I just don't want to loose the config. This is part 1 of a terminal server set. I just started working here, I did not setup the system and am nervous about starting over with this server as I have not worked with TS before.