Mirrored Boot Drives

Learn a new trick for preventing an unbootable system when a mirrored spare boot disk fails.

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January 16, 2001

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The trick to preventing an unbootable system when a mirrored spare boot disk fails is to install Windows NT on the spare drive and create both a bootable (i.e., active) partition and a Master Boot Record (MBR) table on this drive. Then, install NT on the primary drive. If the primary drive is disconnected or fails, the system will still boot.

—Richard Hunt
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