Mirrored drives show up as seperate drives

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I have 2 different w2k servers that are now having this problem. Both have
software mirrors on the boot drive. The drives mirrored properly when they
were setup.

Now for some reason, both drives show up in My Computer. If I open the
drives they show the same information. Even if I add something to the "C:"
drive it will show up in the other drive. I believe that they are still
mirrored.

I noticed this after the last round of MS patches were release and
installed.

I am not having problems with services not starting because they want to
start from a file location on the "new" drive (ex. "F:") and not the original
"C:" location.

Has anyone else seen this? I can't find any KB articles on this. I don't
know if I have even accuratly described the situation. One server now won't
even let me into Disk Manager to break the mirror.

Any help/insight would sure be appreciated.

Thanks.

 

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Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.general (More info?)

Hi Brad,
It seems that you installed roll up update pack 1 for windows 2000 and it
could not update the mountmgr.sys file. Go to
regedit->hkey_local_machine\software\microsoft\windows nt\current
version\winlogon. Change the value data field to "userinit.exe". Go to
Hkey_local_machine\system\mounteddevices. Backup the whole key and then
delete it. Reboot the machine and see if the problem still prevails. In case
the problem still prevails, go to c:\winnt\system32\drivers and rename
mountmgr.sys to mountmgr.old. Go to c:\winnt\$NTUpdateRollupPackUninstall$
and copy mountmgr.sys to c:\winnt\system32\drivers. Reboot the server. If the
problem still persists, redo the first two registry changes(mounteddevices
and userinit) and reboot. I hope this should solve the issue.

Lukesh

"Brad Peterson" wrote:

> I have 2 different w2k servers that are now having this problem. Both have
> software mirrors on the boot drive. The drives mirrored properly when they
> were setup.
>
> Now for some reason, both drives show up in My Computer. If I open the
> drives they show the same information. Even if I add something to the "C:"
> drive it will show up in the other drive. I believe that they are still
> mirrored.
>
> I noticed this after the last round of MS patches were release and
> installed.
>
> I am not having problems with services not starting because they want to
> start from a file location on the "new" drive (ex. "F:") and not the original
> "C:" location.
>
> Has anyone else seen this? I can't find any KB articles on this. I don't
> know if I have even accuratly described the situation. One server now won't
> even let me into Disk Manager to break the mirror.
>
> Any help/insight would sure be appreciated.
>
> Thanks.