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Rebuilding a RAID Mirrored Array
This section applies to Mirrored, Striped Mirroring RAID and RAID 5 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, RAID 0+1, RAID 5).
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 \
6.53 \ IDE \ WIN2K (or WINXP)\ NvRaidMan.exe
]
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.
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.
