I'm not sure if I'm asking this in the right forum. I apologize. We have server 2003 mirroring through raid. Our raid 0 crashed. Now we are forced to boot from floppy. Can I get rid of the floppy boot without reinstalling?? P.S.- I tried an MBR fix. Thanks for any help and advice.

Hi Jason, this is not exactly the BEST forum for this, but I suspect several folks that frequent here have had this experience. I am assuming that you are using software RAID (Windows is handling the mirroring, right?) IMHO, Microsoft's decision to allow Windows todo RAID 1 and RAID 5 were pretty bad decisions because it is SO easy to really toast something. So, before you proceed with ANYTHING, make sure you have good backups and documentation. Hardware-based RAID rules! (Sorry, it is early in the morning here and my sense of humor is a bit weird.) The problem is probably one of two things. First, your disk controller is not looking to the second disk as a bootable source or that partition on that disk is not marked as active. Can you reconfigure the disk controller to boot to the second disk instead of the missing disk? And, if so, is the c:\ partition marked as 'active' in the Windows Disk Management console? And, have you replaced and re-mirrored the original disk?

Learn your RAID levels. Your title is "broken mirror" but there is no "mirror" in RAID 0. RAID-1 offers mirroring. RAID 0 offers no protection of data. There is no way to recover without sending to a diagnostic facility or getting lucky with some diagnostic software. try ontrack.com

Yes.. but I have installed my knew drive.. but it is forcing me to boot with a floppy.. I think this may have something to do with MBR? There isn't a way to change the MBR like in initial setup?

boot order is controlled through your system bios. you should be booting from your windows server disk or your vendor's bootup/install disk.

Mike, I think he using Windows software-based fault tolerance. That would explain why he is having to use a Windows boot loader disk.

Try this link. I would assume you need to break the mirror. Make sure you make a backup before doing anything.http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/72c7fdee-97d5-4476-bc5e-a859d8b49a931033.mspx?mfr=true