Replacing A Failed Disk With An Uninitialized Disk; Replacing A Failed Disk With An Initialized Disk - NEC Express5800/320Ma Administrator's Manual

Hard Disks

Replacing a Failed Disk with an Uninitialized Disk

Follow this procedure to replace a failed disk with an uninitialized disk. To physically
locate a disk, see
To replace a failed disk with an uninitialized disk
1. Physically remove the failed disk and replace it with an uninitialized disk.
2. Disk-management software automatically resynchronizes the replacement disk
with the remaining good disk, creating volumes on the replacement disk and
mirroring the disks.

Replacing a Failed Disk with an Initialized Disk

Perform the following procedure to replace a failed disk with an initialized disk using
Windows Disk Management.
To physically locate a disk, see
To use Windows Disk Management to replace a failed disk with an initialized disk
1. Physically remove the failed disk and replace it with an initialized disk. For details,
see the operation and maintenance guide for your system.
2. Examine the type of the initialized replacement disk:
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If the replacement disk's type is Foreign Dynamic, go to step 3.
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If the replacement disk's type is Basic, go to step 4.
3. In Disk Management, right-click the foreign dynamic replacement disk, and then
click Convert to Basic. The replacement disk should now appear as a basic disk.
4. If the basic replacement disk has any volumes, delete them. Right-click the volume
on the replacement disk, and then click Delete Partition. Repeat for each volume
on the replacement disk. Verify that the basic replacement disk now appears as a
single unallocated space.
5. Right-click the replacement disk and click Convert to Dynamic.
6. Remove the mirrors from the missing disk that was physically removed in step 1.
Right-click a volume on the missing disk and then click Remove Mirror. In the
Remove Mirror dialog box, select the missing disk and click the Remove Mirror
button.
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Repeat this step for each volume on the missing disk.
5-4 Express5800/320Ma: System Administrator's Guide
"Finding a Physical Disk" on page
C A U T I O N
Be sure to select the missing disk, not the remaining good
disk. You will lose data if you select the remaining good
disk.
"Finding a Physical Disk" on page
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