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Hello,
I built a new computer a three weeks ago. The motherboard supports
hardware raid with the silicon image chips and driver. I set up two
drives in a RAID 1 configuration. I have the raid set partitioned as C:
and D:.
Everything has run smooth, fast and very quite. I could never hear
the drives until last night.
Then I could hear a drive or drives rumbling, the boot time was
longer and applications were jerky.
I am guessing that one of the drives is failing. My question is
how do I determine which drive?
Should I break the mirror and look at each drive separately?
What will XP see when I break the mirror. Will it see drive C:, D:, E:
and F:?
Can I use some sort of disk performance utility to tell me which
drive is failing.
If I can replace the failing drive. I can use the good drive
for the 'source' to build a new mirror,... I think
Any ideas? I'm I barking up the right tree?
Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
Hello,
I built a new computer a three weeks ago. The motherboard supports
hardware raid with the silicon image chips and driver. I set up two
drives in a RAID 1 configuration. I have the raid set partitioned as C:
and D:.
Everything has run smooth, fast and very quite. I could never hear
the drives until last night.
Then I could hear a drive or drives rumbling, the boot time was
longer and applications were jerky.
I am guessing that one of the drives is failing. My question is
how do I determine which drive?
Should I break the mirror and look at each drive separately?
What will XP see when I break the mirror. Will it see drive C:, D:, E:
and F:?
Can I use some sort of disk performance utility to tell me which
drive is failing.
If I can replace the failing drive. I can use the good drive
for the 'source' to build a new mirror,... I think
Any ideas? I'm I barking up the right tree?
Any help is appreciated. Thanks.