Healthy (At Risk) <-- ???

[aakerman]

I finally got my brothers computer working, 2*D740X 80GB (unfortunately I didn't buy a motherboard with raid support, didn't know then he was gonna buy TWO hd's).
When I formatted the second disk under windows 2000, using disk manager, I noticed they both were labelled as "Healthy".

Now, my own D740X 80GB is labelled as "Healthy (At Risk)." When I first noticed this, I thought it might be some flaw in windows, but now
I've seen that this "flaw" doesn't appear on other systems, I'm worried... I've tried looking around, and I can't find anywhere it reads "clean drive for errors" or something to that liking...

What does "At Risk" exactly mean, and how do I render my drive "Healthy" again?

 

[kuk]

From the help section in Windows:

Cause:

Indicates that the dynamic volume is currently accessible, but I/O errors have been detected on the underlying dynamic disk. If an I/O error is detected on any part of a dynamic disk, all volumes on the disk display the Healthy (At Risk) status and a warning icon appears on the volume.

When the volume status is Healthy (At Risk), an underlying disk's status is usually Online (Errors).

Solution:

Return the underlying disk to the Online status. Once the disk is returned to Online status, the volume should return to the Healthy status. If the Healthy (At Risk) status persists, the disk might be failing. Back up the data and replace the disk as soon as possible. For instructions describing how to bring the disk back online, see To reactivate a missing or offline dynamic disk.

For more information about volume status descriptions, see Volume status descriptions.

 

[aakerman]

thx, but what is an "underlying disk" ?