STOP Msg: 0x0000001E Testing New Fault Tolerance Boot Disk

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SUMMARY

In the Windows NT "Concepts and Planning Guide," Chapter 7, Page 17, titled "Managing fault tolerance and UPS," the section, Testing Your Newly Created Boot Disk, states:

After creating your fault-tolerant boot floppy disk, you can perform the following simple test to reassure yourself that it will work when needed.

Insert the fault-tolerant boot floppy disk and restart the computer.
If your boot selection correctly specifies the alternate ARC path to the secondary mirrored partition, your system should begin to boot and then fail with the following STOP message:
***STOP: 0x0000006B (0xC000000D, 0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)
PROCESS1_INITIALIZATION_FAILED

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You may experience a different stop message than the one listed above, but this also indicates that the FT boot floppy is working correctly:

*** STOP: 0x0000001E (0xc0000006,0x801Abe58,0x00000000, 0x00000000)
KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED

To fully test the Fault-Tolerant Boot disk to ensure it will boot from your mirrored drive, disable the primary NT drive by removing power to the drive.

Keep in mind that it will be necessary to change the rdisk(x) entry in the Boot.ini file to compensate for the missing drive if the rdisk(x) value is greater than (0) on the fault-tolerant disk.