I have a partitioned System/Data mirrored volume set set in Windows 2000 Server. It did say that it can no longer access a failed disk. I tried to re-activate it and did not come back online. Instead of breaking the mirrored set, I rebooted and reseated the drive. Now when it starts to boot, I get Blue Screen of Death that there is an inaccessible boot device. I tried removing the failed drive, but same error! I need to boot back to break the mirror, please help!!!!

maybe you misdiagnosed which drive was which? Which failed, the primary or the shadow? Give a person a fish, they eat for a day. Suggest they internet search and they learn a skill for a lifetime.

If you are doing software mirroring, and the primary drive failed, you will need to make a change in the boot.ini. Normal boot.ini reads. [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect needs changed to [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect

Very true IF the drive is still being detected in the bios. Trick is to remove the power or drive completely and you don't have to change the boot.ini. After all there is no rdisk(1) if there is only (0) If we knew which had failed then we would know what path to go down. For example its not uncommon to note be able to boot the shadow drive. Solution is a 2000 boot diskette to boot the server. If its the primary that stopped booting fixmbr and fixboot usually fixes it. In either case a repair install should be able to fix it. Give a person a fish, they eat for a day. Suggest they internet search and they learn a skill for a lifetime.

I am going to take it for granted that this is a hardware RAID, since the PE2300 seems to come standard with SCSI RAID. When windows tries to boot, it is taking information from BOTH drives. If one of them is inaccessible, it will not boot. Just enter your SCSI utilities (control L) and break the mirror. Remove the secondary drive, and try a reboot. if it fails on that drive, swap drives.