Just a word to the wise. If you have a RAID 1 array for your C: drive
in Windows, and you replace one of the hard disks that RAID reports as
failed, DO NOT attach the failed disk to the same machine to find out
what is wrong with it. I now know more about the Windows boot manager,
the Windows Recovery Environment, disk partitions under Windows 7 and
the use of the Diskpart, Bootrec, and BCDEdit tools, as well as remote
editing of registry hives, than I ever wanted. It took nearly three days
of searching, fiddling, booting from install disks, and trying out
various tools (some of which did bad things I then had to figure out how
to undo - I'm looking at you, EasyBCD) to get back to where I started
from.
Friday, July 06, 2012
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
