Raid Array disk recovery?

[cl8855]

OK, no one in my other forums seems to know much about recovering RAID, so here's my question:

I have a Raid 0 Array (2X30GB hd) where one of the drives is going bad. I was able to boot once and I backed up some key files and tried to ghost the main partition, but Ghost says it doesn't truly support Raid arrays.

Anyway, one of my error messages in my Raid controller said I could "replicate" the drive. So that's my question, can I just use the raid controller's replicate utility (like for mirroring) to replicate the drive while it is still good, then replace the almost bad drive with the replicant?

 

[kshugart]

Software raids can sometimes be tricky.
Norton Ghost is a bad consumer product, and doesn't know what a RAID is.
It is interesting that your controller suggests to "replicate". What instructions are you to proceed with? Does the controller's manufacturer know?
Since RAID 0 is a strip set, replicating the bad drive probably won't work, that is why I asked about the procedure.

 

[cl8855]

FYI, it actually Ghosted (mostly) correct from a raid 0 array to a single hard drive with 2 partitions (even different size!). But the "mostly" here is the key, somehow it didn't get the pagefile ghosted, and was simply impossible to boot without the pagefile. Windows says they will create a temp one, but they didn't in this case.
I just used this as an excuse to break my array and reload windows on a plain HD.
The good news is at least all my data was there after reload, just had to reinstall the programs to get registry correct.

The replicate hard drive only works if you set it up as raid 1 it turns out.