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I have your motherboard configured with Intel RAID level 5 array with three Seagate 500GB hard drives. The system had been running for few months without any problem. But, today two of three hard drives failed. I have replaced the failed drives with new hard drives, but can’t boot into Windows OS to rebuild the array using Intel Matrix Storage Management utility. I don’t want to loose important data since there is no data back-up yet. Is there any work around to rebuild the array?
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I am afraid not. RAID Level 5 can lose one drive and still can generate the missing data on one drive. One good drive can not be used to rebuild a RAID level 5 array.
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Storage:
Hard drives Host RAID
Date Posted:
01/30/09
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