Ok, I have an Alienware aurora Area51. Setup is a raid 10 4 hdd's with a 5th outside the array (storage only). The 5th HDD failed epsa with 2000 0151 sequence =E3. I removed the defective non raid HDD and installed a known good HDD in its place. But system did not recognize a bootable device. Removed HDD and just tried booting with the 4 hdd's in the array, same result. Put the defective HDD drive back in and booted right up????....
I tried repair with installation disc...no go.
I checked raid array (control-I) with good HDD and with only the 4 array HDD drives and it reads as normal and bootable ( color was green on array as well).
The only way it will boot is if defective HDD which isn't part of the array is reinstalled....any ideas...i'm stumped and don't have time to research or troubleshoot at this time.
I am running W8.1 Raid 10 (0+1) with 4 hdd's and 1 HDD drive as not part of the array (storage device only)<<<which is defective >>>
I tried repair with installation disc...no go.
I checked raid array (control-I) with good HDD and with only the 4 array HDD drives and it reads as normal and bootable ( color was green on array as well).
The only way it will boot is if defective HDD which isn't part of the array is reinstalled....any ideas...i'm stumped and don't have time to research or troubleshoot at this time.
I am running W8.1 Raid 10 (0+1) with 4 hdd's and 1 HDD drive as not part of the array (storage device only)<<<which is defective >>>