Get windows to boot from Secondary Plex automatically

Karandras

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Hey.

Here is the story. We've had HDD 0 fail in a Windows Software RAID 1 setup. Yay for RAID BTW. However, now when we star the server we have to manually select the Secondary Plex to have the server boot, it will not boot from the First Plex. How can I set it to auto-boot from the 2ndary plex?

I'm a newb with Windows Software RAID so any info would be great.

Thanks.!
 
Your boot.ini should already have two entries, one for each disk. Just set the second one to auto-boot instead of the first (system tab, startup and recovery, boot options) until you rebuild your raid with a new disk.
 
Hey Thanks for your help.

However, I forgot to mention this is running Server 2008. I can't find a boot.ini file so I used msconfig.exe to change the boot order. Worked like a charm.
 
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