When a hard drive in a RAID 1 volume fails or is disconnected, the RAID 1 volume will continue to function but is in a degraded state. If both hard drives fail, the volume will fail.

If one of these scenarios occurs, refer to the appropriate procedure below to recover or to recreate your configuration.

• Degraded RAID 1 volume
• Failed RAID 1 volume

Degraded RAID 1 Volume

Missing Hard Drive

1. Turn off the computer.
2. Reconnect the missing hard drive.
3. Turn on the computer. The rebuild will occur automatically.

Failed Hard Drive

Use one of the following methods to recover your failed RAID 1 volume.

• Basic mode of the Intel® Matrix Storage Console
• Advanced mode of the Intel® Matrix Storage Console
• Option ROM

Use the following steps to recover your RAID 1 volume using Basic mode of the Intel® Matrix Storage Console.

1. Turn off the computer.
2. Replace the failed hard drive with a new hard drive that is of equal or greater capacity.
3. Turn on the computer.
4. Open the Intel® Matrix Storage Manager ( Start » All Programs » Intel® Matrix Storage Manager » Intel® Matrix Storage Console ).
5. Click Restore RAID 1 data protection .
6. Click Rebuild RAID volume now .
7. Click Yes to rebuild your RAID 1 volume.

Use the following steps to recover your RAID 1 volume using Advanced mode of the Intel® Matrix Storage Console.

1. Turn off the computer.
2. Replace the failed hard drive with a new hard drive that is of equal or greater capacity.
3. Turn on the computer.
4. Open the Intel® Matrix Storage Manager ( Start » All Programs » Intel® Matrix Storage Manager » Intel® Matrix Storage Console ).
5. Click the View menu and then click Advanced Mode .
6. Right-click on the non-RAID hard drive in the device tree and click Rebuild to this Hard Drive .
   
   
   
   

Use the following steps to recover your RAID 1 volume using the Intel® Matrix Storage Manager option ROM.

1. Turn off the computer.
2. Replace the failed hard drive with a new hard drive that is of equal or greater capacity.
3. Turn on the computer.
4. When prompted during system startup, press Ctrl and i at the same time to enter the Intel Matrix Storage Manager option ROM user interface.
5. A dialog that says, "Select the port of the destination disk for rebuilding" should appear. Use the up or down arrow keys to select the new hard drive and press Enter .
6. Click 4: Exit .
7. Press Enter .
8. Press Y to confirm. The rebuild will begin once the Windows* operating system loads.

1. Turn off the system.
2. Replace the failed hard drives with new hard drives that are of equal or greater capacity.
3. Turn on the system.
4. When prompted during system startup, press Ctrl and i at the same time to enter the Intel Matrix Storage Manager option ROM user interface.
5. Click 2. Delete RAID Volume .
6. Use the up or down arrow keys to select the failed RAID 1 volume.
7. Press Delete to delete the volume.
8. Press Y to confirm the deletion.
9. Click 1. Create RAID Volume to create a new RAID 1 volume.

Related Topic:
System won't boot to degraded RAID 1 volume

This applies to:

Intel® Matrix Storage Manager