2. During the reboot, a screen appears that displays information on the failing disk.
See Figure 65. Note the Device Port number of the failing disk.
3. Power off the machine.
4. Continue with the steps described in “Replacing and rebuilding a hard drive.”
Replacing and rebuilding a hard drive
Note: Before beginning these procedures, you should have completed one of the
two methods on determining the failed hard disk drive.
1. Follow steps one through three in “Removing the hard disk drive” on page 36 to
open the machine.
2. Trace the serial ATA cables from the hard disk drives to he system board.
Note: Drive 0 connects to serial ATA connector 0 and Drive 1 connects to serial
ATA connector 1.
3. Continue with the instructions in “Removing the hard disk drive” on page 36 to
remove and replace the failing hard disk drive.
4. Re-assemble the machine and power on.
After the operating system has loaded, the RAID application will automatically
begin re-building the hard disk drive. During this process, you can use the
machine normally. Rebuilding time will vary depending upon the size of the
partition, amount of data and system activity during the rebuild.
Accessing the RAID setup menu
After enabling the RAID function from the BIOS setup menu, you can enter the
setup menu by pressing CTRL and R on the keyboard. Pressing CTRL and R
allows you to enter the RAID setup menu before the Windows operating system
Figure 65. Boot up warning
Updated July 14, 2008
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