Hi,

I'm having trouble configuring primary and backup OS boots on windows 2003 server

####setup####

Here's boot.ini from c: drive

[boot loader]timeout=30

default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS

[operating systems]

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows Server 2003, Standard" /fastdetect

multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Backup Windows Server 2003, Standard" /fastdetect

and boot.ini from d: drive

[boot loader]timeout=30

default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS

[operating systems]

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Backup Windows Server 2003, Standard" /fastdetect

This is disk management once booted to Windows Server 2003, Standard

####running####

I'm getting first screen saying:

Please select operating system to start:

Windows Server 2003, Standard

Backup Windows Server 2003, Standard

I choose backup and I get the error saying:

Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem.

Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot patch and disk hardware.

Please check the windows documentation about hardware disk configuration and your hardware reference manuals for additional information

However if I remove the C: disk I'm able to boot from D:

has anybody got any ideas what I do wrong?

Edited January 16, 200719 yr by wally

The arcpath in second entry in first boot.ini appears to be incorrect,

multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS

should actually be:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS

Check this:

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=25365

and links therein, basically if you use the "multi" syntax like in

multi(X)disk(Y)rdisk(Z)partition(W)\<winnt_dir>

X and Y are ALWAYS 0 (zero)

Z is the number of the disk (first disk is 0)

and

W is the number of partition (first partition is 1)

jaclaz

Thanks a lot, I'm not sure why did that work this time (maybe some changes were made after I booted to d: by removing c:) but I had the value you suggested set to 1 before and it didn't work. well anyway thanks a lot you made my day (:

Well, it was an easy one, happy it worked.

jaclaz