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Raid Volume Degraded Because of Missing Missing Hard Drives

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by A_3PO, Oct 8, 2009.

  1. A_3PO

    A_3PO Member

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    I have a Raid 1 hard drive configuration. Two 320GB drives.

    Got home from work today and my PC was completely frozen. I shut it down the hard way, waited a few seconds and rebooted. It then locks up very early in the reboot. I repeat and it boots up but in lower right-hand taskbar, I notice the colors of my raid icon are grey & red. Putting the mouse over it gives the message: A RAID volume is degraded because of missing hard drives. When I click on it to start up the Intel Matrix Storage
     
    #1 A_3PO, Oct 8, 2009
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    Ignore above.

    I have a Raid 1 hard drive configuration. Two 320GB drives.

    Got home from work today and my PC was completely frozen. I shut it down the hard way, waited a few seconds and rebooted. It then locks up very early in the reboot. I repeat and it boots up but in the lower right-hand taskbar, I notice the colors of my raid icon are grey & red. Putting the mouse over it gives the message: A RAID volume is degraded because of missing hard drives. When I click on it to start up the Intel Matrix Storage Console, it says a hard drive is missing. I figure it must be "missing" because it obviously failed. Is that a logical conclusion?

    What do I do now? Is it as simple as plugging in a new hard drive of equal or greater size? How do I know which hard drive to pull out and replace?
     
    #2 A_3PO, Oct 8, 2009
  3. Jeremiah

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    Not really enough info- it's hard to diagnose these things without specific models, errors, etc.

    I would start, though, with getting the same model drive. If you unplug one and plug it in, and the RAID array rebuilds, then you pulled the right one out.
     
    #3 Jeremiah, Oct 8, 2009
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    Good thing you had Raid 1 and not Raid 0...At least you don't lose any data..

    I'm pretty sure if you replaced the non working drive, you would have a nonfunctional system so that should be a process of elimination I would think...

    Then again wtf do I know...
     
    #4 tracymac, Oct 8, 2009
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