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RAID 1 "Degraded" Error, Only One Drive Recognized?
I am on Windows 7 Professional 64 bit. 8 GB RAM. I am having problems with a RAID 1 setup. Had a shop install the RAID system less than a year ago. For a while it worked fine. Now when I reboot, the start-up is extremely slow + during the boot-up sequence it now says that the RAID system is “Degraded”. Before anyone asks the obvious, the people who installed it are no longer in business. I had used them successfully for over 10 years, now they are gone.
So far I have:
< Been unable to find any indication of a RAID system or 2 hard drives in Win 7 Disk Management.
<Intel Matrix Storage Manager Option ROM v8.6.0.1007 also seems to only show a single drive:
-----ID = SATARAID, RAID 1, 931.5GB, Degraded, Bootable Yes
-----Physical Disks = ST1000DM003-9YN1, S1D2Q061, 931.5GB, Member Disk (0)
Need help with:
· Why do I not see any indication of 2 drives in Windows or in Bios, only one?
· Need to be able to validate/ensure that the computer sees 2 hard drives.
· Need to validate/ensure that Windows 7 sees 2 hard drives.
· Need to know how to check both of the RAID hard drives to ensure one is not bad.
· Need to know how to correct the “degraded” warning I get at boot-up.
· Is there any quick method of ongoing monitoring a RAID system while in Windows 7?
Thanks!