AMD Fastbuild - recreate RAID 1

bcraig15 · 11-21-2008, 07:10 PM

During a repair I accidentally knocked a SATA cable off one of the HDDs in my RAID 1 set, apparently during a partial boot it was bad enough that the RAID utility no longer sees the drive as part of the array. It shows it as an unassigned drive and where it should be in the array it says "damaged or missing drive." Does anyone have any experience recreating a RAID 1 array from one good drive? I've found one set of instructions that said to delete the previous array and rebuild but when it asks to format say no. Though I am sort of wary of deleting the original array unless I know this is the correct procedure. Also, how will the utility know which drive to mirror to the other as they both should have valid data and configurations on them? I have not been able to find any manuals or instructions that detail this procedure. I have an Asus M3A32-MVP Deluxe board.

Thanks in advance!

bcraig15 · 11-22-2008, 02:53 PM

ok, well for the first time in my computing history, this solved itself without me having to do anything. Apparently the utility decided to rebuild the array on the fly even though it said the disk was missing. I understand what it did and am glad I didn't do anything rash, though I would have liked to see better documentation for this utility. Anyways, I just thought I'd post the results in case anyone finds this in the future. BTW, you can usually tell if it's rebuilding or not when you turn on the comp and the HDD access light is on solid for 4 hours.

11-21-2008, 07:10 PM	#1 (permalink)
bcraig15 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 27 OS: XP Pro	AMD Fastbuild - recreate RAID 1 During a repair I accidentally knocked a SATA cable off one of the HDDs in my RAID 1 set, apparently during a partial boot it was bad enough that the RAID utility no longer sees the drive as part of the array. It shows it as an unassigned drive and where it should be in the array it says "damaged or missing drive." Does anyone have any experience recreating a RAID 1 array from one good drive? I've found one set of instructions that said to delete the previous array and rebuild but when it asks to format say no. Though I am sort of wary of deleting the original array unless I know this is the correct procedure. Also, how will the utility know which drive to mirror to the other as they both should have valid data and configurations on them? I have not been able to find any manuals or instructions that detail this procedure. I have an Asus M3A32-MVP Deluxe board. Thanks in advance!

11-22-2008, 02:53 PM	#2 (permalink)
bcraig15 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 27 OS: XP Pro	Re: AMD Fastbuild - recreate RAID 1 ok, well for the first time in my computing history, this solved itself without me having to do anything. Apparently the utility decided to rebuild the array on the fly even though it said the disk was missing. I understand what it did and am glad I didn't do anything rash, though I would have liked to see better documentation for this utility. Anyways, I just thought I'd post the results in case anyone finds this in the future. BTW, you can usually tell if it's rebuilding or not when you turn on the comp and the HDD access light is on solid for 4 hours.