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gilamran   08-21-2009 at 09:32:59 AM

Hi,
I have two 1TB hard-drives. I used them as RAID 1 (Mirror)
Yesterday I had to unplug the battery, to reset the BIOS. now I'm back to two drives C & D.
I've change the settings in the BIOS back to RAID.

The Intel Matrix storage is blinking in the taskbar, and it's saying that the RAID volume was degraded...
and it gives me the option to rebuild it, but when I try to do it, I get an error message saying "The replacement hard drive lacks capacity to be used for rebuilding the volume" HUH?!?

How can I get back to the good old one drive (Mirrored in RAID 1)

Thanks in advance.
Gil Amran

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candide08   08-21-2009 at 08:01:24 PM
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Make sure you remove the partition first, a low level format would be even better.
Then add it back into the array and try to rebuild.

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gilamran   08-21-2009 at 09:50:04 PM
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are you sure?!?!? sounds very drastic...

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sgtmattbaker   08-22-2009 at 04:40:24 AM
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That sounds really extreme. I hope you don't have to do that with a RAID array every time you reset to the defaults...

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gilamran   08-22-2009 at 11:45:09 AM
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anyone with a better solution?

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markcohn28   08-22-2009 at 05:18:25 PM
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Boot up with only one drive connected. After your computer boots up, shut down the computer. Then add the second drive. That's it.

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