lp231 :
I'm leaning towards the upgrade on the antivirus program has corrupted the OS. If a HDD is bad, then the RAID console should tell you which drive is bad. RAID 1 is to protect from hardware failures, not software, you can try booting from 1 drive at a time, and see if that works, but mirror setups is what ever happens to the first drives, automatically affects the 2nd. So that antivirus program corrupting your OS in the main drive automatically corrupts on the 2nd HDD too.
Try this first, don't know if it will work, boot from your Windows server disc, and to a system restore to the point before the antivirus programs was installed and see if that works or not.
I verified the Server was running 2008 SP2 (not R2). I booted from the install disk and selected the repair link. I discovered (and verified through interent searches) that 2008 no longer has a System Restore function nor can you do a repair install over top of the existing Windows installation. I also cannot do an "Upgrade Installation" (disabled). It will only allow a Clean Installation.
I have tried from the command prompt in the Recovery Environment:
1. X:\Sources\Recovery\StartRep.exe to run Startup Recovery. - Found 1 root cause: "Bad patch preventing Windows Startup" - Windows still has same BSOD after restart.
2. ran StartRep again - found same root cause but said could not fix it.
3. ran chkdsk c: /f - fixed 131 security descriptors and free space marked as allocated
4. ran sfc /scannow /offbootdir=c:\ /offwindir=c:\windows - said it found & fixed corrupted system files - Windows still has same BSOD after 2 normal restarts and 2 Last Known Good Config & still won't boot any of the Safe Mode options.
One note - the Bad Patch made me think about that there is an IE 9 cumalative security update that came out last spring (April maybe) that fails to install. I tried manually downloading and installing it (unsuccessfully) and couldn't find an answer with internet searches. I have done other updates & upgrades since then without any issues. I don't know if that is somehow related.
At this point I am out of ideas to repair the O/S. I put in a 2008 R2 w/ SP1 install disk and I have the option to do an "Upgrade Installation". I'm thinking about doing the Upgrade to see if that works.
The server only runs Symantec Backup Exec. The backups are stored on another RAID partition in the server and then duplicated offsite.
**** UPDATE ****
I tried selecting the "Upgrade Install" but a message pops up saying to reboot Windows normally then insert the install disk to do the upgrade. Looks like that is not an option.
I would also like to verify that the only system change was the Anti-Virus update. I did not do any Windows or other updates.
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