Hi, and a big hello to all. New to this forum and as my mother always said manners cost nothing
I am hoping that I might be able to get some advice/help from you all.
I am running a Asus P5E with 4 500GB harddisks in the following raid config (well let me say was running!) with the Intel Matrix Storage System Rom v7,5,0,1017 ICH9R wRAID5
The following raids are split accross all 4 harddrives
Raid 0 200GB (which I used for the OS, Windows Vista .1 partition
Raid 5 1247.2GB (Which was for storage/extra backup) 3 partitions
The problem is one of my harddrives died and now which natually means my raid 0 is gone to raid hell Failed, along with me Vista installation. My raid 5 is showing Degraded.
Natually I have no OS now, I do have another harddrive on order but wont be here until next week, I would like to get a jump start before it arrives and get my pc backup and running over the weekend.
Can I delete the failed raid 0 and recreate it, and if so will it affect my raid 5 degraded? Because when I select delete, I get a warning that deleting the volume will reset the DISKS to non raid, and all data will be lost.
If I can do the above how would I proceed with installion on Vista so as not to damage my degraded raid 5 until my new disk arrives.
Once my new disk arrives and the above is ok to do, will it be straight forward to fix the degraded raid 5 ?
Or does anyone else have an idea on what I can do to get the ball rolling so I can get my pc up and running before my new disk arrives?
Thanks for taking the time for reading this.
I am hoping that I might be able to get some advice/help from you all.
I am running a Asus P5E with 4 500GB harddisks in the following raid config (well let me say was running!) with the Intel Matrix Storage System Rom v7,5,0,1017 ICH9R wRAID5
The following raids are split accross all 4 harddrives
Raid 0 200GB (which I used for the OS, Windows Vista .1 partition
Raid 5 1247.2GB (Which was for storage/extra backup) 3 partitions
The problem is one of my harddrives died and now which natually means my raid 0 is gone to raid hell Failed, along with me Vista installation. My raid 5 is showing Degraded.
Natually I have no OS now, I do have another harddrive on order but wont be here until next week, I would like to get a jump start before it arrives and get my pc backup and running over the weekend.
Can I delete the failed raid 0 and recreate it, and if so will it affect my raid 5 degraded? Because when I select delete, I get a warning that deleting the volume will reset the DISKS to non raid, and all data will be lost.
If I can do the above how would I proceed with installion on Vista so as not to damage my degraded raid 5 until my new disk arrives.
Once my new disk arrives and the above is ok to do, will it be straight forward to fix the degraded raid 5 ?
Or does anyone else have an idea on what I can do to get the ball rolling so I can get my pc up and running before my new disk arrives?
Thanks for taking the time for reading this.