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    RAID 1 Disk Failure has killed my system!

    OK, got it sorted. Thought i'd best post what happened. Removed the drive which said 'Error Occurrd' in the bios (rather than the one that said 'Normal'. The one that said 'Normal' was useless) and plugged it as slave into another pc. Downloaded PC Inspector and tried that on it; no joy, just...
  2. depaulo

    RAID 1 Disk Failure has killed my system!

    I think I must be using hardware raid (you enable it in the bios) though i do have to install a windows raid driver so windows setup can see(ish) the disk. Maybe i will try fixmbr and fixboot and see if that brings it to life. First i will by a new hard disk and see if it will rebuild. Thanks...
  3. depaulo

    RAID 1 Disk Failure has killed my system!

    Thats exactly what I thought. I think they must both be knackered even though the bios says the second is ok. I have been kind of clutching at straws thinking maybe I had to do something to get it booting using the second. Thanks anyway.
  4. depaulo

    RAID 1 Disk Failure has killed my system!

    I have tried unplugging each disk in turn but no joy. As for backup, i stupidly thought raid could not fail me and have been rather slack lately. shame on me.
  5. depaulo

    RAID 1 Disk Failure has killed my system!

    Hi Can anyone help? I have a raid 1 setup with 2 disks using Intel raid controller built into the mother board. One disk has gone wrong (at bootup you can see 1 disk says 'Error Occurd' and the other say 'Normal', and the array is in state 'Degraded'). This has had the effect that my system...
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