DMBoot error

[Sandy Ryan]

on one of my ADs i have two dynamic mirrored disc
On boot up I'm receiving EventID:3 dmBoot failed to start volume Volumne1:c
and the same error for the f drive
however the OS (which is on C) boots and the AD is working.
how do i correct this - when i look in the disk management - it clearly has
a problem.
i found the knowledge base article for windows 2000 - but does it work on
windows 2003 sp2?

 

[Coraleigh Miller]

Re: DMBoot error

Hi Sandy,

Do the possible causes in the article (is it article 236086?) apply to you?
Microsoft does reference this article from within a Windows 2003 doc so that
would make me think that it would work for 2003... maybe someone else here
can confirm?

From the article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816307/en-us ...
"Never delete or create a partition on a dynamic disk during Windows 2000,
Windows XP, or Windows Server 2003 text-mode Setup or when you start the
computer by using the Recovery Console. If you do so, permanent data loss
may occur. For more information about this issue, click the following
article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
236086 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/236086/) System or boot disk listed
as Dynamic Unreadable in Disk Management "

You may also want to try running a chkdsk to make sure theres no physical
issue with your drives (as well as changing your data cables with known good
ones).

Coraleigh Miller


"Sandy Ryan" <SandyRyan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3B97BC24-DF1E-48D4-9F3F-0BB64665FAAE@microsoft.com...
> on one of my ADs i have two dynamic mirrored disc
> On boot up I'm receiving EventID:3 dmBoot failed to start volume
> Volumne1:c
> and the same error for the f drive
> however the OS (which is on C) boots and the AD is working.
> how do i correct this - when i look in the disk management - it clearly
> has
> a problem.
> i found the knowledge base article for windows 2000 - but does it work on
> windows 2003 sp2?