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Today I went to boot my server only to notice the message we all dread and fear:
NTLDR is missing
I booted to the Server 2008 Recovery Console (or whatever its real name is), and issued this command:
bootrec / fixmbr
The operation completed successfully.
bootrec /fixboot
Element not found.
bootrec /scanos
Scanning all disks for Windows installations.
Please wait, since this may take a while...
I've been please-waiting for about two hours now in preparation to run /rebuildbcd (Which I tried before and also gave up after 3 hours). Do I need to reinstall my OS?
This is a fresh install of Server 2008 on a brand-new Velociraptor.
Note I didn't put this on Serverfault because it's a personal system, not enterprisey stuff.
That's a heck of a lot of disks for a home system. If this happens again it might be worth disconnecting the disks that don't have the os on while doing the scan. – Col – 2009-09-28T09:58:22.937
Yeah there was a bad drive, I found and unplugged it. – tsilb – 2009-09-28T12:43:52.423