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Rebuilding a RAID Mirrored Array

This section applies to Mirrored or Striped/Mirrored RAID configurations and describes how to reestablish the integrity of a mirrored environment after replacing one of the drives (typically because of a single disk failure). After replacing the errant drive, the rebuild process will move data from its mirrored sibling drive (the drive with information still intact) to the newly installed drive. This only applies to mirrored configurations (RAID 1 and RAID 0+1).

Before you rebuild a RAID Mirrored Array

Before you begin rebuilding a RAID Mirrored Array, you must copy the “NvRaidMan.exe” file from the bundled CD Driver to your C: drive. 【CD File Location Path => D: \ Driver \ nForce \ 4.24 \ IDE \ WIN2K (or WINXP)\ NvRaidMan.exe】

1.To rebuild a mirrored array, bring up the NVIDIA RAID Utility. From the “Array List” screen, select the array with the newly installed drive. Then go to the “Array Detail” screen (press Enter). Then press the <R> key and use the up/down arrow keys to select the hard drive that you just installed. Then press <F7>. A confirmation message will display (as shown below). Press <Y> to confirm. Then press <Ctrl-X> to exit the “NVIDIA RAID Utility” setup.

2.Launch the NVRAID Management utility by double-clicking the NvRaidMan.exe that has been copied to the C: drive. You can view the status of rebuilding under the Details section from the screen as shown below.

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