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Chip · 12-27-2003, 11:47 PM

I managed to get Snap server 1000 booting properly with the help of a free tool called Diskprobe from the NT Resource Kit. The kit is now free to download from Microsoft. basically I used the good HD with the Diskprobe and copied out the sectors 0-4096 and saved them as a file then turned around and wrote them back to a new HD. When the Snap boots it did not go into the maintenance mode but rather booted normally. The only problem was the new drive had the old drive's partition table. Long story short...the answer lies in the partition table. That's why you can't just slap any old drive in. The Snap drive also contains any customizing you mave have done such as failure notification email addresses and such. I only managed to get the Snap to boot and bring up the http interface. The drive was not in good enough shape to format or repair but I'm still working on that.

Chip.

12-27-2003, 11:47 PM	#63
Chip Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Earth Posts: 1	Snap Server 1000 fooled with Diskprobe I managed to get Snap server 1000 booting properly with the help of a free tool called Diskprobe from the NT Resource Kit. The kit is now free to download from Microsoft. basically I used the good HD with the Diskprobe and copied out the sectors 0-4096 and saved them as a file then turned around and wrote them back to a new HD. When the Snap boots it did not go into the maintenance mode but rather booted normally. The only problem was the new drive had the old drive's partition table. Long story short...the answer lies in the partition table. That's why you can't just slap any old drive in. The Snap drive also contains any customizing you mave have done such as failure notification email addresses and such. I only managed to get the Snap to boot and bring up the http interface. The drive was not in good enough shape to format or repair but I'm still working on that. Chip.