Re: [tlug] How to proceed with RAID drive failure

[Martin G <ebisumartin@example.com>]

Stephen, Attila,

Thanks for responding.

First, try changing the boot disk order in the BIOS. 

Hey, nice! That worked! My machine booted up! Thanks for that, Stephen.

Man, I'm so glad I asked here first before messing around.

I don't feel I'm out of the woods yet, though.

I think this means that one of my drives is dead. So, my questions are:

If I open up the computer to pull out the dead drive, how can I tell which of the physical units is the bad one?

Can I just get a drive of similar specs, put that in, and have it be integrated into the RAID? I imagine this will involve some kind of formatting and set up of the new disk, but can it be done in such a way that I essentially keep the data from the good drive and have the new drive mirror it?

Thanks for any advice!

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Dave M G