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The hardware:
- Supermicro H8DCE motherboard w/ BIOS v.1.0c
- 2 x Opteron 270
- 4 x Kingston KVR400S4R3A 1GB memory modules
- 3 x Western Digital Caviar SATA II (WD2500KS), 2 are setup as mirrored in
BIOS and used as install drive.

I am trying to install Win 2003 Srv Ent x64 to a mirrored drive set.
The motherboard uses nVidia Pro chipset.

I first tried to install Win 2003 Srv Ent x64 from my MSDN disks, with
problems decribed below.
Today i downloaded and tried installing Win 2003 Srv Ent x64 R2, with the
same problems.
On both installs i have tried the nForce4 6.66 and 6.82 revision drivers.
The drivers seem to be for both XP and 2003.

- Boot from install CD - ok
- Hit F6 and load nVidia RAID drivers from floppy - ok
- Format drive, install OS, get to first login and am able to login and get
a GUI.
- With 6.66 drivers i get an error message about a 32-bit application
failure.
It asks if i would like to send to MS, network isn't up so i can't.
I look at the details but there is no specific app info.
With 6.82 i don't get this message.
- With R2 i get popup asking to continue install with Disk 2
(i get the following regards of installing disk2 or not)
- 7 new devices are found and i just let it install drivers and finish each
with no errors
- first is hard disk
- then 3 sets of primary and secondary IDE
- I get a message that changes require a reboot
- With R2 and 6.82 drivers i have not seen any errors at this point
- When i look in explorer i see drives C, D, E
D is the DVD, C is the boot drive, E is the mirror of C !
I should not see the mirror (E) in explorer
- I am able to open task manager: 4 cores, 4 GB found

- I reboot, i get a black screen with the message saying
Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
\Windows\System32\Config\System
You can try to repair by hitting r at first screen ...
- At the screen
Select install to repair
1. c:
When i enter 1 <enter> the system hangs.

I expect it is a nVidia driver problem installing to a mirrored set.

Open to suggestions.

Thanks,
Chris

Sometimes instead of
\Windows\System32\Config\System
being missing or corrupt i get
<Windows root>\System32\ntoskrnl.exe
is missing or corrupt.

I have just found the same problem with Win 2003 Srv Ent R2 - 32 bit.