Question : Problem: NVIDIA Mirror and my own stupidity

Hello,

I have a server and I had two 300 GB hard drives mirrored onto it. This same server had another 400 GB hard drive on it that I used for storing other data. Tonight, I thought I removed the 400 GB hard drive and went to replace it with a 1TB hard drive. I removed the wrong one.

I removed one of the mirrorred hard drives and replaced it accidently with the 1TB hard drive. When I rebooted I saw that the NVIDIA raid GUI said that it was rebuilding the RAID. I panicked and shut down the machine.

I removed the 1TB hard drive and also removed the 400 GB hard drive I thought I originally removed. I put back the hard drive that was mirrored. Windows server would not boot and would reboot itself over and over again regardless of which drive I told the computer to boot on. So, I removed one of the drives and now the computer only has one. It booted on that one drive.Now, I have only one of the original server hard drives. It is not mirrored anymore because now it is the only hard drive in the server. so far (knock on wood) the server is working.

I want to mirror again. I want to put back in the hard drive that used to be mirrored, but I need advice on the best way to do this. Should I format the drive first so that the NVIDIA raid controller is not confused again? How can I get a mirror back /restarted without losing all of my data?

Please advise.

Thanks,
John

Answer : Problem: NVIDIA Mirror and my own stupidity

What I think is that the raid controller is searching for the hdd 1tb drive as it was in the process of rebuilding it, now what you should try is keep the original disk from which it is booting as it is and put the 1tb disk drive inside, it should start the rebuilding process again, if it does let it complete and then check the raid manager. After rebuilding is complete remove the 1tb drive and replace it with another 300 gb drive which was originally in mirror with the other one.
Hope this helps.