I'm having a little server with Windows Small Business Server 2003. I'm using RAID1, via a HighPoint Rocket RAID 1640 RAID-card, using two harddrives.
This week the server alarmed, and durig reboot I got the error-message Broken Mirroring (User Manual page 30). I had a few alternatives (see the manual), first I tried Continue, but the server restarted during boot. Next time I took Power Off, and replaced the oldest harddrive with a new one, and when I booted, I selected Rebuild. Then I selected the new harddrive to be the new one. The rebuild-procedure started and a progress bar at 0% showed up, but after a few seconds I got the message Copy Failed!, then the server booted and Windows Server started. Now it works fine.
But I guess that I'm just using one harddrive now, and it's not mirrored. I haven't touched the server since then (two days ago). What should I do now? I have no experience of this situation.
Anyone that have some guidance?
Most RAID controllers will show the status of the array and its member drives during the POST process at boot. They usually have a way (Ctrl+I and Ctrl+M are popular) to access the RAID management with options for checking consistency and rebuilding drives. I would try to get into that and perform the rebuild from the firmware tools before the OS loads and the system is busy.
The RAID controller seams to work fine now. I haven't done anything more with it. Case closed.