RAID 0 disk error - how to fix?

[Kadence]

I have a 2x300GB WD Velociraptor RAID 0 array (P5E Deluxe motherboard). My computer is working fine booting from that drive, but on boot Intel Matrix Storage Manager says in red text that there is an "Error(0)" on the 2nd drive.

I ran a checkdisk which took a couple hours I think, but Storage Manager is still showing the same message.

What is this error, and how do I fix it?

Also I have a nightly incremental backup set in in Vista copying the RAID drive to an external 750GB drive. Could this error potentially cause any corruption of the backup?

 

[RebateMonger]

Originally posted by: Kadence
Also I have a nightly incremental backup set in in Vista copying the RAID drive to an external 750GB drive. Could this error potentially cause any corruption of the backup?

What kind of backup is it? Some backups, like XP/2003's NTBackup, can be made worthless by a drive failure during the backup process. The answer with NTBackup was always to have at least two different backup files (made at different times), so one will still be good.

 

[Nothinman]

I would guess it's a SMART error indicating the drive might fail soon, not something Windows would see like a bad block, yet anyway.

 

[Kadence]

Originally posted by: RebateMonger
What kind of backup is it? Some backups, like XP/2003's NTBackup, can be made worthless by a drive failure during the backup process. The answer with NTBackup was always to have at least two different backup files (made at different times), so one will still be good.

It's created by Vista 64.

Originally posted by: Nothinman
I would guess it's a SMART error indicating the drive might fail soon, not something Windows would see like a bad block, yet anyway.

How should I deal with this then?

 

[Kadence]

I'm still getting this, and would like a way to fix it because I feel like I'm heading for drive meltdown or something :Q