I have a Dell Sever with a Raid 0 setup. Losing the data is not an option, I do have a backup. What has happened is, the second disk in the set has media issues which cause the event log to fillup. Sometimes it locks up the machine. My question is, is there an easy way to replace this drive and restore the disk from the backup system with out reloading NT.

Assuming that this is a "typical" Dell server with 2 scsi hard drives and using a software mirror using Windows NT4.0. I am not sure about the actual Raid controller running the scsi drives with a hardware mirror with their scsi controllers are setup, so I am not sure how exactly that is done. But if the drives are mirrored, then all you have to do is go to Disk Administrator and click on the right click on the 2nd hard disk and select "break mirror"  on each partition(if you have more than one partition mirrored). This will require a reboot. Shutdown the server and replace the 2nd drive. Bring up server and go back to Disk Administrator and hold down <Shift> and click on a partition on the first drive, then right click on the second drive and select "Establish Mirror". Do it for all partitions that you want to mirror and then exit DA. Reboot server and it will rebuild the Raid Level 0 for you. You can check the event log and DA to see when the Initialization started and finished. With SCSI drives it shouldn't take too long and use much resources on the server while re-building. Hope this helps and Good Luck..

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