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Replacing and Rebuilding a Degraded RAID Volume
In the event of a hard drive failure in a RAID level 1 volume, you will need to
replace the hard drive and resynchronize the RAID volume.
1
Replace the failed drive with a new drive of the same type and capacity (or
larger capacity).
2
Check your management application or the RAID Configuration Utility
(Ctrl-C) to ensure synchronization started automatically.
NOTE: Proceed to step 3 only if synchronization does not begin automatically.
3
Enter the RAID Configuration Utility (Ctrl-C).
4
From the
Adapter List
screen, select the controller that contains the
degraded RAID volume.
5
From the
Adapter Properties
screen, select
RAID Properties
.
6
Press <Alt+N> until the degraded RAID level 1 volume is in view, then
select
Manage Virtual Disk
.
The screen shows the RAID volume with a status of “
Degraded
”.
7
Select
Add Secondary Disk
and select a drive from the list of available
drives.
The new hard drive automatically begins to sync with the drive of the
degraded RAID level 1 volume.