Drive in a Raid 0 Volume is Failing, what are my options?

[Mitsu3kGTVR4]

I'm new to using a Raid setup, and so far it seems to be pretty fast. It's been running fine for about 2 weeks, but a message just popped up "A drive in a Raid 0 volume is failing."

I'm running 2 80 gig Seagate 7200's, Vista 64, and Intel 975xbx2kr.

When I check the main volume for both drives the status says normal, but when checking each individual hard drive the one on port one has a status of "error occurred"

Anyone know what to check for here? Is this a software or hardware issue? And how can I resolve this?

 

[Ste]

Hard Drive health (HDD) is a program you can download, that will inform you of a Drives SMART Status. Which is Hardware. The only thing you can do is backup important information regularly and continue to use it. If a Drives dies you will either have to use the other by itself or buy another Drive.

 

[Mitsu3kGTVR4]

i tried HDD health but i don't think it recognizes Raid drives, it sees my other 2 hard drives fine but it doesn't show anything for the Raid drives, just shows they're there.

 

[Ste]

Hrmm Interesting. Speed Fan also has a SMART Indicator Program you can try that.

You can also run chkdsk from cmd prompt.

 

[Mitsu3kGTVR4]

tried chkdsk but didn't have any luck. i think it might be the actual hard drive, although everything seems to be working fine, i noticed the bios screen reports one of the raid hard drives has an error... i think i'm going to try and format both drives, reinstall windows, and if that doesn't fix it it's probably the actual hard drive.