Fail to recover mirroring disk

Dear all,
Today, I plan to lear about mirroring disk. So I setup another hard disk (not same model) to my computer load with Win2003. I add a miror to the volume C (Disk 0) with the second disk (Disk 1). The miror was sync and all was fine. I take out the Disk 0 (original data) but the computer cannot boot with the secondary disk. In my sybex book, I see that I have to boot the computer with a windows 2003 boot disk and a boot.ini that point to the secondary partition. As my computer doesn't have floppy disk, I made a boot CD disk (NTLDR, NTdetect.com, boot.ini). It doesn't work. Here is the boot.ini config in the original data:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows Server 2003, Enterprise" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptOut

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(2)\WINNT="Boot Mirror C: - secondary plex"
If anyone who try to pratice disk mirorring has this kind of problem. And when I replace in the default= rdisk(1)partition(2), it doesn't work. Your help will be appreciate.

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dynamik

You might need to change the rdisk value to 0. Since you physically removed the other disk, the remaining disk would no longer be the second disk.

Tontonsam

I replace the last row rdisk(1) to rdisk(0), it doesn't work. I am using two differents models hard disks and size. Do you think it is because it is not the same model? cause it is was same model and size, whenever I move the secondary disk to the primary drive, it should work cause windows will reconnize it as the 1st disk.

Sie

Can you boot it from the Media CD and run a fixboot??

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326215

Tontonsam

I am sorry to tell you that I have boot with CD 2003 to run the bootcfg /rebuild. It said that it cannot scan the disk, try to run chkdsk. When I run chkdsk, it said that there's no disk. when I run fixboot, the same message that there's no disk. When I try with fixmbr, it replaced the MBR partition but it is still inaccessible. It seems that C is not an active partition. But when I put the 1st hard disk with the 2nd hard disk, I can boot with the secondary disk. But it cannot boot when the 1st disk is not present.
Also, when I use diskpart in the recovery console, i see the drive that I can delete if I want. Do you think that it is because the disks are not same model and size? If it was and I move the secondary disk to the primary drive, it should work. I should test that but it is difficult to find two same disks.