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January 28th, 2011 10:00
Change raid 1 drive.
I may have a problem developing on my Primary 'Drive 0' disk.
A couple of years ago my Drive 1 had similar issues and eventually failed and was replaced. The Matrix storage manager rebuilding the second drive after a period of time.
With the primary drive now showing early signs of a problem does the second drive I currently have contain the disc partition and all the necessary software and operating system to start on its own?
Secondly if it can what is the sequence to swap out the primary drive?
I would think its to ID the faulty drive and whilst shut down to disconnect it and re-boot, then to shut down and swap out the old drive and replace with the new one, then re-boot and let the system re-build the drive (or possibly let the system start and go into the storage manager and force a re-build).
Any thoughts or suggestions to my questions/ proposals?
I am not that used to opening up a PC though.
Cheers
Martyn
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January 28th, 2011 11:00
NOTTUB
It'a handy to include the computer model and version of windows that's installed, in the post.
Yes, as you have RAID1, the second hard drive is a mirror image of the primary hard drive.
Replace the hard drive and rebuild the array same as before.
Bev.
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January 28th, 2011 14:00
Thanks Bev,
Its a Dell 9150 running XP (SP3) Media Centre edition.
I presume then that the second 'mirrored' disk will also have the partition with the Dell recovery tools on it?
Could you confirm the sequence for change for me please?
Thanks again
Martyn
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January 28th, 2011 15:00
NOTTUB
Yes, a 'Mirrored' image, means it is identical.
The procedure for replacing a Dimension 9150 hard drive, is HERE
Bev.
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January 29th, 2011 00:00
That's great, really helpful thanks.
Just one more dumb question from me..
Is there a specific sequence to go through so the PC can see the removal of one old drive and the installation of a new one.
I was probably undt the impression that you removed one then started the PC so it could log that one drive was missing so it would tit from the Array. in the Matrix Storage Manager.
Then shutdown, install the new drive, and re-boot. the PC then ID.s that there is a new drive and rebuilds the array.
Could you confirm if there is a sequence to go through please.
Thanks again for your help I really appreciate it.
Martyn
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January 29th, 2011 09:00
NOTTUB
After replacing the hard drive, you can manually rebuild the computer’s redundancy mirror to a new hard drive by performing the following steps:
Click the Start button and point to Programs→ Intel( Application Accelerator→ Intel Matrix Storage Manager to launch the Intel Storage Utility.
Right-click the available hard drive to which you want to rebuild the RAID level 1 volume and click Rebuild to this Disk.
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January 29th, 2011 14:00
Thank you Bev, you have been most helpful.
Cheers
Martyn
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January 29th, 2011 14:00
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You are welcome.
Bev.