RAID 1 Question

newlegendsportz

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Hi everyone,

I'm a bit of a RAID newbie. Have a Dell desktop PC with a RAID 1 config in it that isn't booting. One of the disks seems to have gone to a status of rebuild. I'm guessing that drive needs to be replaced most likely but I don't have a spare drive at the moment and need this PC to function in the meantime until I am able to get a replacement drive for the rebuild. Can someone tell me how to bypass this screen and boot into Windows or if that's possible? Thanks in advance!!

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A RAID 1 configuration means that you have two mirror image HDD's, they both hold exactly the same thing. Looks like one of the drives has failed so you would simply go into the BIOS and remove the RAID and set the HDD's to a non-RAID state. Without more specific information on how the RAID was setup I can't say more. Here are some reference links.
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1729321/disable-raid.html
https://communities.intel.com/thread/48706
http://download.intel.com/support/chipsets/imsm/sb/irst_user_guide.pdf
A RAID 1 configuration means that you have two mirror image HDD's, they both hold exactly the same thing. Looks like one of the drives has failed so you would simply go into the BIOS and remove the RAID and set the HDD's to a non-RAID state. Without more specific information on how the RAID was setup I can't say more. Here are some reference links.
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1729321/disable-raid.html
https://communities.intel.com/thread/48706
http://download.intel.com/support/chipsets/imsm/sb/irst_user_guide.pdf
 
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