RAID 0 Question

'Ello,

When I boot up my PC before Windows starts to load it tells me the status of my RAID array and states that two of the drives are "Member Disks," but the third says "Error Occurred."

When I boot up into Windows though I do have some problems but I assumed that it was a Windows problem as at around the same time I installed SP1 for Vista via Windows Update. The problems I have is when I plug my camera in it doesn't recognize it and tries to install the drivers then gives me a message about it failing because the operation had timed out, I also get the same problem with a USB flash drive but it still works fine despited Windows telling me it couldn't install the drivers.

All of this worked fine before I install SP1, so I'm guessing it's that and not the RAID error message but I was wondering what other people thought? Also should I delete the RAID 0 array and start over because of the error message? My PC hasn't been crashing or anything else like that which is what I thought an error in the hard drive would do.

Thank you in advance, El Barto.

If it's a raid 0 array, and one disk is out, you shouldn't see the array appear in windows... if it does, but the raid card says it's damaged and it's your system disk, that could well explain your problems.

'Ello,

Thank you for the reply yes the array is my system disc, just what I wanted to know. One more thing thoughwould this just mean that the array needs to be remade or that the actual hard drive has a fault? I would have thought if the hard drive has a fault it would have not worked at all.

Thank you again, El Barto.

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I just deleted the RAID array then recreated and restored an image backup of my computer I had and now it all works perfectly. SP1 wasn't the problem at all was just the RAID 0 array having a fault.

Thank you again!
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