Take the company's mission-critical server. Take a disk image of the OS 
partition. Boot from a Linux live CD. Reformat the system partition. 
Restore the system partition from the image file, and pay to God 
almighty that it actually boots up again.

Sure, there's no reason why it *shouldn't* work... But let me tell you, 
that had my hands shaking for a few minutes there! o_O

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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> ... pay to God ...

Freud was right.   ;-)

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On 25/10/2011 02:06 PM, Mike the Elder wrote:
> Invisible<voi### [at] devnull>  wrote:
>> ... pay to God ...
>
> Freud was right.   ;-)

"Too right! After all, the Bible does say 'God helps those who help 
themselves', right?"

"Actually, no, that's Aesop's Fables. The Bible says quite the opposite, 
in fact..."

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On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:19:11 +0100, Invisible wrote:

> "Too right! After all, the Bible does say 'God helps those who help
> themselves', right?"

Said the shoplifter.

<boom-tish>

Jim

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On 10/25/2011 7:51 AM, Invisible wrote:
> Take the company's mission-critical server. Take a disk image of the OS
> partition. Boot from a Linux live CD. Reformat the system partition.
> Restore the system partition from the image file, and pay to God
> almighty that it actually boots up again.

Why would you do such a thing to begin with?

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Kyle <no### [at] spamhere> wrote:
> On 10/25/2011 7:51 AM, Invisible wrote:
> > Take the company's mission-critical server. Take a disk image of the OS
> > partition. Boot from a Linux live CD. Reformat the system partition.
> > Restore the system partition from the image file, and pay to God
> > almighty that it actually boots up again.

> Why would you do such a thing to begin with?

  You have to look busy or else management will start doubting your
necessity.

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                                                          - Warp

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On 03/11/2011 12:27 PM, Kyle wrote:
> On 10/25/2011 7:51 AM, Invisible wrote:
>> Take the company's mission-critical server. Take a disk image of the OS
>> partition. Boot from a Linux live CD. Reformat the system partition.
>> Restore the system partition from the image file, and pay to God
>> almighty that it actually boots up again.
>
> Why would you do such a thing to begin with?

The server is persistently experiencing NTFS corruption errors, and I 
just can't get rid of them. Which is strange, because if I restore the 
image file to a virtual machine, it runs completely without issue...

You won't be surprised to learn that the elaborate procedure above 
utterly failed to fix the problem. But hey, it was worth a shot.

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Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> The server is persistently experiencing NTFS corruption errors, and I 
> just can't get rid of them. Which is strange, because if I restore the 
> image file to a virtual machine, it runs completely without issue...

  I assume you have checked the disk for errors. Thoroughly.

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On 03/11/2011 02:19 PM, Warp wrote:
> Orchid XP v8<voi### [at] devnull>  wrote:
>> The server is persistently experiencing NTFS corruption errors, and I
>> just can't get rid of them. Which is strange, because if I restore the
>> image file to a virtual machine, it runs completely without issue...
>
>    I assume you have checked the disk for errors. Thoroughly.

1. Would a physical disk error actually affect a logical RAID-1 volume? 
(And shouldn't that affect *all* the partitions, not just one?)

2. Yes, I asked CHKDSK to do a full surface scan. It found nothing wrong.

I've seen fleeting references that say that CHKDSK doesn't fix all 
possible filesystem errors, so perhaps that's the problem I'm seeing 
here... Still doesn't tell me how to fix it though.

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On 11/3/2011 11:19 AM, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> 1. Would a physical disk error actually affect a logical RAID-1 volume?
> (And shouldn't that affect *all* the partitions, not just one?)

When you write "logical RAID-1 volume", are you referring to a volume 
created by mirroring two drives in the Windows OS, or is it a volume 
created via the adapter hardware+software?  Also, what Windows OS, 
drives and adapter(s) are you using?

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