Boot from Mirror (Dynamic Disk)


  1. kenny782
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    Windows 7 Ultimate Retail
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    Boot from Mirror (Dynamic Disk)


    Okay I converted my boot disk to dynamic, and a secondary drive to dynamic.
    I added a mirror, it synched up and now I have a mirror set... lol

    How do I add a boot option to boot from the mirror if needed?
    I knew how to do this in XP/2003 with the boot.ini

    I've tried system properties and msconfig, I can't find anyplace to set it up.

    Why Microsoft didn't just make this an option in disk management years ago I'll never know...

    Thanks,

    Kenny
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  3. Biornus
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    Windows 7 Ultimate
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    I'm having the same problem. My boot partition is mirrored, but I can only boot from my first drive (not the second drive that I mirrored to). Strange that Windows doesn't automatically make the second drive bootable when you create a mirror of your boot partition.

    I've gotten as far as btdedit, but still haven't figured out what needs to be done.
    BCDEDIT - How to Use

    Thanks,
    Bjorn
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  4. Ztruker
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    Windows 10 Pro X64
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    Give Easy BCD Beta 2.0 a try, makes it much easier. You can/should backup the settings before making any changes. Note that this DOES NOT backup the MBR. You can use a program like MBRFix to do this.
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