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Well i should say is going bad hearing clicking. So after i break the mirror it will still boot windows and automatically boot from the second drive?
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Well i should say is going bad hearing clicking. So after i break the mirror it will still boot windows and automatically boot from the second drive?

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It should ,but you may want to mark it active and bootable in disk manager first after you break the mirror.
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It should ,but you may want to mark it active and bootable in disk manager first after you break the mirror.

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... and if you don't have a current backup, do that FIRST. &nbsp;Murphy's laws on the worst possible time for the original drive to die is immediately after you break the mirror.
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... and if you don't have a current backup, do that FIRST.  Murphy's laws on the worst possible time for the original drive to die is immediately after you break the mirror.

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so we have a Dell Poweredge 840 with a software raid 1. it consists of 2 500gb sata drivers. The primary c:drive seems like it is failing so we want to replace it with a identical. Can someone point me to the correct steps to go about replacing it? do i break the mirror first and then put the new drive in and let it build?<br />
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should i ghost the drive and then ghost it onto the new drive and replace? just looking for the best real life solution.<br />
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thanks
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so we have a Dell Poweredge 840 with a software raid 1. it consists of 2 500gb sata drivers. The primary c:drive seems like it is failing so we want to replace it with a identical. Can someone point me to the correct steps to go about replacing it? do i break the mirror first and then put the new drive in and let it build?

should i ghost the drive and then ghost it onto the new drive and replace? just looking for the best real life solution.

thanks

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