C Drive Missing On Mirrored NT 4 System

[jwalsh]

I recently ran Windows update on a NT 4 server in order to install the latest security patches. That was a big mistake because now the system crashes with a memory dump. The reason why can be viewed here:

MS Article #317252: http://support.microsoft.com/default...#91;LN];317252

I now need to get access to the drive in order to over-write the corrupted files, but I'm not having any luck. I've tried the 2000 and XP recovery consoles, and DOS, 95 & 98 boot disks. None of them recognize drive C. I know it is there though because NT 4 gets all the way to the login screen before it crashes. I think that it may have something to do with the fact that the drive is mirrored, but I have no experience with mirrored drives. Also have had no luck searching the web for similar problems.

The drive is using a FAT partition and I believe it is a 2 GIG hard drive.

Any ideas on how I can get access to the drive? Thanks in advance for any help that you can give me.

[meese]

Does it crash before you logon or after?

[jwalsh]

It crashes both ways; if I leave it and if I logon. However, I can only enter the logon information if I'm quick about it, and it never gets to the desktop.

[meese]

I use W2K server. I used to mirror the system drive. One time the server crashed. So each time I logged on the server would try to rebuild the mirror set. It would always hang about a minute after I logged on. What I did in that minute of time was break the mirror set. After that the server would not hang anymore. Do you have enough time to break the mirror?

[jwalsh]

Meese, thanks for the quick replys and the help. I ended up installing both drives as slaves on another computer. I was then able to access the data to copy over the files I needed. The drives are now back in the NT server and every thing seems to be OK.