Dead Spanned Volume

[lordbelial]

I have a 1Tb spanned volume (5x 200gb) on a Windows 2003 server. Recently, one of the drives died. I still have access to the spanned volume but it is painfully slow and frequently freezes. If I take out the dead drive, Windows will not mount the volume. Is there anyway to take out the dead drive and force windows to mount the volume with the missing drive? Should I just cut my losses, backup what I can and wipe all the drives? Any suggestions are appreciated.

 

[xmsre]

Which drive is dead? You can certainly truncate the volume at the dead drive, but you will lose all data after it, ie. if the 4th member of a 5 drive spanned volume dies and you truncate the volume, you lose the data on drives 4 and 5.

 

[lordbelial]

Its not worth it at this point then. Its either the 2nd or 3rd drive tahts dying. Right now Im just trying to backup wha tI can and Im gonna wipe the good drives and start again. this time I think Ill go with RAID5