- Dec 10, 2008
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I have a new server with several hot swappable drives. I installed Windows Server on my C: drive. In my disk management window I had drive C: as 'System', and drive D: as 'Active'.
I then enabled RAID in the BIOS and set up a mirrored RAID between two drives in a RAID utility, but my computer kept restarting when I tried to load Windows because apparently I didn't have the right drivers for it to start with RAID set up.
I pressed ctrl + E to go to the RAID utility to stop it from restarting. Then I went to the consistency checker in the RAID utility and started that because I wanted to mirror my operating system between the disks, and it was only on drive C:.
While this was happening, I found some driver stuff that maybe would fix my Windows boot problem with RAID enabled and wanted to test it. So I aborted the RAID consistency checker because it was taking forever and then my computer locked up.
I turned off my computer and back on and disabled the RAID in the BIOS so I could start windows and install my driver stuff. But my driver stuff would not install for some reason.
I went to my disk management and saw that drive D: was now set to 'System' and drive C: was set to 'Boot'. I found that D: was now corrupted. I tried formating D:, but it says that I cannot format the 'System' drive.
Since Windows works fine from the C: drive I'm assuming I could make it the 'System' drive and the 'Boot' drive like before, instead of having the 'System' and 'Boot' split between C: and D:. However, I have no idea how to change C: back to system so that it will let me format my corrupted D: drive. I'm not sure if it is even possible to change.
Help! What should I do?
I then enabled RAID in the BIOS and set up a mirrored RAID between two drives in a RAID utility, but my computer kept restarting when I tried to load Windows because apparently I didn't have the right drivers for it to start with RAID set up.
I pressed ctrl + E to go to the RAID utility to stop it from restarting. Then I went to the consistency checker in the RAID utility and started that because I wanted to mirror my operating system between the disks, and it was only on drive C:.
While this was happening, I found some driver stuff that maybe would fix my Windows boot problem with RAID enabled and wanted to test it. So I aborted the RAID consistency checker because it was taking forever and then my computer locked up.
I turned off my computer and back on and disabled the RAID in the BIOS so I could start windows and install my driver stuff. But my driver stuff would not install for some reason.
I went to my disk management and saw that drive D: was now set to 'System' and drive C: was set to 'Boot'. I found that D: was now corrupted. I tried formating D:, but it says that I cannot format the 'System' drive.
Since Windows works fine from the C: drive I'm assuming I could make it the 'System' drive and the 'Boot' drive like before, instead of having the 'System' and 'Boot' split between C: and D:. However, I have no idea how to change C: back to system so that it will let me format my corrupted D: drive. I'm not sure if it is even possible to change.
Help! What should I do?
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