Broken Drive in Raid 1

[tcpipgeek]

Hello,
I am using a standard PC that is about 2 years old and I am running Windows 2000 server. My two hard drives are just 100 GIG SATA Hard Drives. I am using the raid that just came with the PC mother board. I think when I set it up a couple years ago I just went into some bios and created the array. I have no idea how to get to the "Mirror" option so I can copy the data from the old drive to the new drive.

One drive is failing and I don't know how to replace it. Any ideas?

 

[RMGBELGIUM]

With a normal raid controller, at boottime, you will see the raid controller initialize itself, you should see the bios blabla on the screen, and usually U need to enter a key combination to enter the RAID's card bios (ctrl+ something (usually ctrl+I) ), or if it is in the regular bios ( if the raid controller is integrated onboard) -> Bios -> advanced -> drive configuration or something like that.

Hope this helps

rgds,

R.

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[kmcferrin]

If you have a mirrored array then both drives contain the same data. When one drive fails you should simply have to remove the failed drive and connect a new drive, and the array should rebuild automatically on the new disk from the data on the old "good" disk.

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