I'm trying to replace a failed RAID 1 drive in Win Server 2008 R2 Foundation and am running into difficulty.
See the image from Disk Management:
Disk 0 is the good drive from the original RAID array, Disk 1 is a new drive.
The 71mb "OEM Partition", as you can see has 100% free space. This is a Dell server and it came with this set up already. If I right click the volume I only get "help" in the menu.
I've mirrored the RECOVERY volume which I believe contains some (seemingly fairly useless) Dell recovery software, and I've mirrored the OS volume to the new drive. I haven't bothered with DATAPART1 yet since this is only a bunch of work files - there is no software etc. here.
The mirroring seems to have worked correctly, however I would expect to be able to remove Disk 0 from the system (by removing the SATA cable) and still be able to boot from Disk 1 only. When I try this, I get "No bootable media found" during the boot process. If I go into the Windows RE (I am having to use a Windows 7 disk as all that came with the server was a Dell recovery disk) and try Startup Repair it tells me it couldn't find any Windows installations. I believe when I unplug Disk 0, Disk 1 also shows up in the boot sequence as "Non-RAID" whereas I would expect it to show up as failed or degraded, since half of the mirror is missing.
Here is the output from bcdedit:
I've never delved into the hardware RAID settings so don't really know what I'm doing there, I'm hoping there'll be a way to do this in software.
What's going to be the quickest/easiest way from here to get to the point where the new disk is bootable on its own? Can I do it through software? It seems to me like I'm almost there, but I am not experienced using BCDedit etc.
The ultimate goal is to take out the 250GB drive (Disk 0) and add in a second 2TB drive, then have the 2x2TB drives running in a mirrored set.