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Hi, hope someone can shed some light on this.............
We are running A Dell PE T320 with 5x disks in RAID5 with Server Standard 2012 R2 as a host with 2x VM's. 1x DC & 1x Exchange.
Over the weekend emails ceased. Reboot of the host occurred manually and since then i have been stuck in a boot loop. Splash screen comes up with rotating dots for about 15-20 seconds then the system restarts eventually going into auto recovery.
F8 boot options have been tried - Safe modes do not initialize.
CHKDSK /f /r completed with some bad sectors repaired - still loops.
Backup and repair of the MBR completed - still loops.
No hardware issues - full thorough shakedown completed.
However, the RAID array has been updated over the past couple of weeks one drive at a time. They rebuilt with no issues one by one.
I can access all the file structures for the various partitions through Command Prompt in recovery so i believe the data is still in tact thankfully.
All searches into this issue of loop seem to suggest an MBR issue but i've run all the suggested fixes so far as this is concerned but nothing changes.
Has anyone any ideas 'out of the box'?? I really dont want to have to re-install as unfortunately the Tech who built the system and the backup failed to backup complete system images, only data, which fortunately include the VM's.
Thanks in advance
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We are running A Dell PE T320 with 5x disks in RAID5 with Server Standard 2012 R2 as a host with 2x VM's. 1x DC & 1x Exchange.
Over the weekend emails ceased. Reboot of the host occurred manually and since then i have been stuck in a boot loop. Splash screen comes up with rotating dots for about 15-20 seconds then the system restarts eventually going into auto recovery.
F8 boot options have been tried - Safe modes do not initialize.
CHKDSK /f /r completed with some bad sectors repaired - still loops.
Backup and repair of the MBR completed - still loops.
No hardware issues - full thorough shakedown completed.
However, the RAID array has been updated over the past couple of weeks one drive at a time. They rebuilt with no issues one by one.
I can access all the file structures for the various partitions through Command Prompt in recovery so i believe the data is still in tact thankfully.
All searches into this issue of loop seem to suggest an MBR issue but i've run all the suggested fixes so far as this is concerned but nothing changes.
Has anyone any ideas 'out of the box'?? I really dont want to have to re-install as unfortunately the Tech who built the system and the backup failed to backup complete system images, only data, which fortunately include the VM's.
Thanks in advance
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