hello everyone I have a serious problem with my NT server, it was running an evaluation edition of NT server 4, a mail program and a proxy program and Norton antivirus. I had two other drives on there set up as a mirror set with all my data on it, I had applied service pack 4 to my installation. The Pagefile.sys was placed on a separate drive from the system files. Well, I got hold of a retail NT4 cd and decided I'd upgrade, I went through the upgrade procedure, but now the server is locked in continual reboot cycle, it also runs chkdsk every time it reboots. I have tried running scandisk on the pc already. I realise now that i should have made repair disks and so forth, but how can i recover my server installation? Actually, the most important thing is the information I have on the mirror set, If I can recover that then theres no loss. If I place a HDD with NT4 on it, in the server, will it recognise my mirror set? Does the rebooting problem have anything to do with the fact that the server has gone back to using build i386 (no service packs) after i upgraded to NT4 full version? Is it because one of the services is unable to start like the mail server, proxy server, modem, lan card? Or could it be because the paging file was placed on another drive and thus NT4 cant start? I placed my faulty NT HDD in another PC with NT4, and i received the following alert reguarding the faulty disk: "The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was 0x00000001e (0xc0000005, 0xfe3b1226, 0x00000000, 0x00000038)." All of this has happened because I upgraded from one version of NT4 to another, can anyone help me? I am desperate to recover the information from the mirror set, any suggestions? Thanks in advance to anyone who replies to this message.

So beit for the upgrade. If this is software mirroring (in disk Administrator) then we need to break the FTBIT with disksave. Then we do a parrallel install into a 'JUNK' folder as opposed to the WINNT folder. Install it as a standalone server, then you'll have a working system with which to save your data. Stop 1e? Is PC Anywhere in this picture?

Oh BTW, it's rebooting because autoreboot was checked. Loading a hive in Regedt32 through the parallel install can turn off that setting.

yank the hd out of the computer & stick it in the secondary ide of another computer, then pull all the info off. repartition with 2 partitions, 1 for the system files(2gig), the other should hold your data. this way you can reinstall the o/s whenever you want without data loss.