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See your Installation and Troubleshooting Guide for information about removing and replacing drives.
3.
Insert a new hard drive in the same location.
4.
Replace the front bezel.
5.
Turn on the system, if it is not already turned on.
If the NAS system was turned on when the hard drive was replaced, the RAID controller card automatically rebuilds and recovers all data to the new hard
drive. If the NAS system was turned off when the hard drive was replaced, you must manually start the rebuilding process.
To manually start the rebuilding process, perform the following steps:
1.
Log in to the NAS Manager.
See "
Logging in to the NAS Manager
" in the "NAS Manager" section of this guide.
2.
Click Maintenance.
3.
Click Terminal Services.
4.
Log in to the Terminal Services session as an administrator.
5.
From the Advanced Administration Menu, click Disk Management under System Management.
6.
Double-click Arrays to expand its list.
7.
Double-click PERC Subsystem 1 to expand its list.
8.
Double-click CERC ATA100/4ch Controller 0 to expand its list.
9.
Double-click Array Group 0 to expand its list.
10.
Right-click the hard drive that you replaced, and click Rebuild.
Replacing Two or More Hardware-RAID NAS System Hard Drives
1.
Shut down the NAS system.
See "
Shutting Down the NAS System
" in the "NAS Manager" section of this guide.
2.
Remove the front bezel.
3.
Remove the failed hard drives from the NAS system.
See your Installation and Troubleshooting Guide for information about removing and replacing drives.
4.
Insert new hard drives in the same location as the failed hard drives.
5.
Replace the front bezel.
NOTE:
Ensure that the new hard drive is the same size as or larger than the failed drive.
NOTE:
The NAS system takes approximately 5 minutes to boot completely.
NOTE:
The NAS Manager default administrator user name is administrator and the default password is powervault.
NOTE:
If the Advanced Administration Menu does not display, double-click the Advanced Administration Menu icon on the desktop of the NAS
system.
NOTICE:
Replacing two or more hard drives deletes all of the data on the hardware-RAID NAS system.
NOTE:
Ensure that the new hard drives are the same size as or larger than the failed drives.