Computer Error

[[503] Cynical2U]

If I have the following computer error, "A RAID volume is degraded due to failed hard drives" is there anyone that could possibly tell me what this means and a possible way to fix it?

[Guest NEO-X]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_array

 

Funny that you posted this today, I had to rebuild a raid today @ work.

 

 

A raid is essentially the pairing of 2 or more hard drives for the purpose of redundancy. Unless you're running a server, i dont know why you would have a raid array on your personal pc. (For ex.. the one i used is "Adaptec Storage Management Console"

 

 

IF its degraded it means, that one of the drives might be going bad. You can try to rebuild the array using the raid management software that may have come with the pc, or by booting in to the raid bios (prior to loading your operating system)

 

 

If you're not familar with pc's, then i'd HIGHLY recommend NOT doing it yourself, and get someone who knows their stuff to do it, since you may potentially lose data, if not done properly.

 

Hope that answers your question

[[503] Cynical2U]

Thanks Darkskye I will let my sister know that as it was her computer that has that error and neither myself or her need that kind of set up so I dont know why dell would send them that.

[Guest NEO-X]

yeah it does seem pretty weird....

 

but in any case, hope you can get that fixed

[[503] Cynical2U]

They were asking me If they don't get it fixed will it screw their computer up.