Windows NT Fault Tolerance and the Boot and System Partitions

ID: Q113932

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows NT operating system version 3.1
Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server version 3.1
Microsoft Windows NT Server versions 3.5, 3.51, 4.0

Disk mirroring is the only type of fault tolerance provided by Windows NT Advanced Server that you can use on the system or boot partitions. You must create disk striping, disk striping with parity, and volume sets entirely from free disk space.

If vendor hardware implementations of fault tolerance (for example, disk controllers that support mirroring, and RAID 5--striping with parity) are compatible with Windows NT, then you can use them on the boot and system partitions because they are implemented below the operating system level.

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Keywords          : kbother ntfault 
Version           : 3.1
Platform          : WINDOWS 
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Last Reviewed: February 3, 1999