Rebuilding a failed mirror set – Rosewill RC200 User Manual

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4.

Press Y to confirm your choice. The spare drive will be created and listed as the last

set.

5.

Press ESC to exit the RAID BIOS.

6.

The SPARE drive will not be seen by Windows, however, it remains in the background

waiting to rebuild the mirror in the event of a hard drive failure.

Rebuilding a Failed Mirror Set

If a SPARE drive was not configured, the steps below will guide you in rebuilding a failed

mirror set.

1.

As the BIOS boots press F3 when prompted to enter the RAID BIOS.

2.

Press F1 to dissolve an Array.

3.

Press the number of the Mirrored array to be dissolved.

4.

Press Y to confirm. Be sure you delete the correct Array.

5.

Press ESC to exit the RAID BIOS, then immediately turn off the computer.

6.

Replace the bad drive with a new hard drive of equal or greater size, then restart the

computer.

7.

During boot press F3 to enter the RAID BIOS.

8.

Press F2 to create an Array.

9.

Press F2 to create a Mirrored Array.

10.

Answer N for automatic setup.

11.

Enter the number of the Source (good) drive.

12.

Enter the number of the Destination (new) drive.

13.

Answer Y to copy from Source to Destination drive.

14.

Answer N to decline Offline Copy.

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