Goal is to get primary disk mirror back in operation. BCDEdit doesn't think the system is EFI enabled and I think it correct. What tools and documents talk about WS2012 rather than 2008? DISKPART confirms that the drives are not GPT. So is it appropriate to reinitialize the newly installed replacement disk, make it GPT, add mirrored partitions and try to treat it like this is a EFI system?
Working on a off-premises Windows server 2012 machine (64 bit) that is set for legacy BIOS, the dual 2 TB drives were initialized MBR, OS installed on first disk, system partition was mirrored to second drive. Primary drive died and was replaced. Secondary drive was made the default boot target using msconfig.
I am unable to restore the primary drive to make it bootable. Bootcfg says it cannot find boot.ini, MSconig sees something, but I cannot look at details of what the entries are booting.
Somewhat scary is the document "Configuring Disk Mirroring for Windows Server 2008 R2" pulled from TechNet dated March 2010:
Windows does not automatically service the contents of the secondary system partition. If you install any operating system updates or service packs, be sure to manually update the secondary system partition (the mirror) with the same updates. To do this, be sure to follow Step 2 of the “Clone the system partition” procedure, where you use the Robocopy.exe command to copy the contents of the primary system partition to the secondary system partition.
Really?
Configuration info follows:
OS Name Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Standard
Version 6.2.9200 Build 9200
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name U17587757
System Manufacturer Supermicro
System Model X9SRE/X9SRE-3F/X9SRi/X9SRi-3F
System Type x64-based PC
System SKU To be filled by O.E.M.
Processor Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2640 0 @ 2.50GHz, 2501 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 12 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. 1.0a, 3/6/2012
SMBIOS Version 2.7
Embedded Controller Version 255.255
BIOS Mode Legacy
BaseBoard Manufacturer Supermicro
BaseBoard Model Not Available
BaseBoard Name Base Board
Platform Role Workstation
Secure Boot State Unsupported
PCR7 Configuration Not Available
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.2.9200.16442"
User Name Not Available
Time Zone Central America Standard Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 32.0 GB
Total Physical Memory 32.0 GB
Available Physical Memory 29.8 GB
Total Virtual Memory 36.2 GB
Available Virtual Memory 34.1 GB
Page File Space 4.25 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys
Hyper-V - VM Monitor Mode Extensions Yes
Hyper-V - Second Level Address Translation Extensions Yes
Hyper-V - Virtualization Enabled in Firmware Yes
Hyper-V - Data Execution Protection Yes
Drive C:
Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed No
File System NTFS
Size 292.97 GB (314,572,795,904 bytes)
Free Space 266.18 GB (285,812,744,192 bytes)
Volume Name System
Volume Serial Number FE8B1C30
Drive D:
Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed No
File System NTFS
Size 1.53 TB (1,685,822,894,080 bytes)
Free Space 1.53 TB (1,685,581,389,824 bytes)
Volume Name Data
Volume Serial Number 2A9DB2EF
Description Disk drive
Manufacturer (Standard disk drives)
Model ST2000DM001-1CH164
Bytes/Sector 512
Media Loaded Yes
Media Type Fixed hard disk
Partitions 3
SCSI Bus 0
SCSI Logical Unit 0
SCSI Port 0
SCSI Target ID 0
Sectors/Track 63
Size 1.82 TB (2,000,396,321,280 bytes)
Total Cylinders 243,201
Total Sectors 3,907,024,065
Total Tracks 62,016,255
Tracks/Cylinder 255
Partition Disk #0, Partition #0
Partition Size 992.50 KB (1,016,320 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 32,256 bytes
Partition Disk #0, Partition #1
Partition Size 292.97 GB (314,572,800,000 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 1,048,576 bytes
Partition Disk #0, Partition #2
Partition Size 1.53 TB (1,685,824,036,864 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 314,573,848,576 bytes
Description Disk drive
Manufacturer (Standard disk drives)
Model ST2000DM001-1CH164
Bytes/Sector 512
Media Loaded Yes
Media Type Fixed hard disk
Partitions 3
SCSI Bus 1
SCSI Logical Unit 0
SCSI Port 0
SCSI Target ID 0
Sectors/Track 63
Size 1.82 TB (2,000,396,321,280 bytes)
Total Cylinders 243,201
Total Sectors 3,907,024,065
Total Tracks 62,016,255
Tracks/Cylinder 255
Partition Disk #1, Partition #0
Partition Size 992.50 KB (1,016,320 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 32,256 bytes
Partition Disk #1, Partition #1
Partition Size 58.59 GB (62,914,560,000 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 1,048,576 bytes
Partition Disk #1, Partition #2
Partition Size 1.76 TB (1,937,482,276,864 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 62,915,608,576 bytes
Ira Grollman