Recent content by pderas

Ok, ok. Just take a deep breath, here's some options: 1. You're running a RAID 1 and you ordered two spares. If you lost a drive, you can simply shutdown, replace the failed drive, boot...and it will rebuild the array, most likely via software...so it won't rebuild until it hits the OS. 2...

I'm sorry taltamir. Both of the systems I set up with RAID 1 had the partitions set up, not in the BIOS, but during installation of the OS. I am not using Matrix RAID. First I enter the Bios and enable RAID and set boot order. Then, as XP installs, I have to hit F6 indicating I have RAID...

So I shouldn't run the RAID setup on the replacement drive? Just format it and test it (any recommendations on a test?). If I get a future failure, I just unplug the damaged drive and replace it with the new drive and it automatically will know that it's a RAID 1 drive and mirror the...

I am setting up a new computer with RAID 1 in XP PRO and ordered two matching drives from Lenovo as spares should my RAID 1 go down. Should I do any preparation of those spare drives to be able to just swap in the event one of the drives on my RAID array dies? Any insight would be appreciated.