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Question

Rebuilding a Raid 1 Drive in Windows 10

by Oct 23, 2016 7:19PM PDT

Hello. I am looking for help in the procedure for rebuilding a failed Raid 1 hard drive in Windows 10. I have an HP H8-1090t 64bit OS. It had two 1.5Tb Seagate hard drives configured in a Raid 1 array. Not to long ago, I went to turn the computer on, and it maid a terrible high pitched whining noise and would not boot past the initial dos-like screen where you can abort the log on to go into set up. Long story short, my primary "boot" drive had a physical failure. I was able to remove it, and the PC booted normally from the other drive. I purchased a 5Tb external Seagate drive, and did a complete back up of the remaining hard drive. I then purchased a new 2Tb (could not find a 1.5Tb on the self) Seagate drive (the same manufacture as original drives). I installed the new Seagate drive tonight, but I does not appear Windows 10 is "automatically" rebuilding the brand new out of the box drive.

Can anyone please give me some assistance in what I need to do to get the OS to rebuild the new drive so I have a fully functional Raid 1 system with redundancy again?

I did find the Disk Management Utility in Windows 10. I am trying to attach a screen shot photo from the disk management utility but when I attempt to attach a photo, it asks for the photo URL and doesn't let me browse to a location on my pc. I upload the jpeg to onedrive and attempted to insert the URL for the photo there, and says the data entered is invalid. If you want to see the screen shot, here is the direct link:
https://1drv.ms/i/s!AiZIF70mmS3Dhl9nCyI1jXzE0Z7Q

Thank you for any help.

Jamie

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A real RAID 1 needs no rebuilding.
by Forum moderator Oct 23, 2016 7:23PM PDT

It's a straight clone of the other drive and should be automatic. If not you and I need to read the RAID controller's product manual. Please supply a link to that product documentation so we're on the same pages.

I don't know what RAID controller you have. If you were relying on Windows software RAID I'm the wrong person to ask. We never deploy Microsoft RAID. Lessons were learned.

Post was last edited on October 23, 2016 7:26 PM PDT

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Thank you for the reply
by JamieLoggins Oct 23, 2016 7:39PM PDT

I am not sure how to answer that. I ordered my computer directly from HP. I ordered it to have the two drives in Raid 1 configuration, and this is how the computer was shipped to me. Of course, it was not windows 10 at the time, and I am not at all experienced with this new OS. I know when I took the faulty drive out, the computer booted again and everything this was there. Now I have replaced the faulty drive, but, from the screen shot I included, it does not look as if anything is happening with that drive. I recall from previous versions of windows a little status icon in the taskbar indicating that the hard drive system was repairing itself. Is there a way for me to get the information you are asking about, like from the control panel under system or device manager or something? Again, my computer is working, and I have the data backed up, but I would like to get it back to a functioning raid 1 system and not just a desktop with a single operational hard drive

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by r. proffitt Forum moderator Oct 23, 2016 8:42PM PDT

There are hardware and software RAIDs. I can't guess which you had so until we know this, it's stuck in neutral.

How about a full model number as there may be a clue in the product docs.

In fact, shouldn't HP document how to get it going again? Let's try that but a full model number or better yet a HP web link to get started.

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