RAID 1 Issues & Questions...

[chin311]

Working on a friend's PC that has a RAID 1 setup.

First off, I have really no experience with RAID's but I know that a 1 is basically 2 drives mirroring each other...correct me if im wrong.

anyways, it wouldnt load up windows xp, i tried the recovery console to chkdsk and it just states "one or more unrecoverable errors blah blah"

my main question IS, can i remove the hard drives and just install them direct to the SATA ports on the mobo and try them each to see which one I can get to work? Will i lose any data by taking them off the RAID and making the switch?

thanks!

 

[corkyg]

I use a RAID1 array, but only for data - not booting. I back that array up to an external drive in case I need to rebuild the array.

You can remove each disk from the array and try them individually. You will not lose any data on the drive that works.

If one of the drives is bad, the array has failed, and most likely needs to be rebuilt. That process can lose data, hence the backup drive.

 

[chin311]

I have deleted the RAID config and have one of the SATA drives hooked up and its running a chkdsk now...guess we see what happens.

prior to that i was getting DISK READ ERROR CTRL ALT DEL to reboot messages...