Thread: Replacing one of the drives in SATA array

I have ( or had ), 2 Maxtor Diamond Max 10 250GB Sata 3.0 GB HDDS in array.
One of them has decided enough is enough and has taken to clicking loudly, causing the following error messages at boot-up:-

Detecting IDE drives
NVIDIA RAID IDE ROM BIOS 4.84
Detecting Array
0 Error Nvidia Stripe 467.52G
Disk Boot Failure

I have a replacement drive ( same model as expired one )

How do I go about replacing the drive and getting the PC operational again

Cheers, Nige

Depending on what you mean by "array" , where you driver mirrored? striped? etc

Thanks for respose...

sorry for not replying earlier - (been away for a few days with work)

I'm presuming it's a striped array - based on the error message outlined earlier, but I'm not sure

Nige

Well if its a stripped set then the two drives are formatted as one big drive, as one of the drives has failed then the stripe set is broken and your data is probably lost, putting in a new drive will allow you to create a new stripe set but you will have to reformat and reinstall your software