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I have ( or had ), 2 Maxtor Diamond Max 10 250GB Sata 3.0 GB HDDS in array.
One of them has decided enough is enough and has taken to clicking loudly, causing the following error messages at boot-up:-
Detecting IDE drives
NVIDIA RAID IDE ROM BIOS 4.84
Detecting Array
0 Error Nvidia Stripe 467.52G
Disk Boot Failure
I have a replacement drive ( same model as expired one )
How do I go about replacing the drive and getting the PC operational again

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If you are lucky, you could possibly clone the bad drive and copy the data over to the good drive. However, with it clicking, it will most likely fail sometime during creating the drive image. Also, I don't know if cloning works with a drive that was striped. But I don't see any reason for it not to.

A program I like to use for cloning/imaging drives is Acronis True Image. It's probably the simplest to use that I've had experience with. What you would do is install the good SATA drive into your computer, then run Acronis (or some other cloning tool) and clone the bad drive to the good drive. Then when it's done, just take out the bad drive and the new drive should have exactly the same data as the old one.

But again, with it clicking, I would bet it would fail during the clone...if it even recognizes the device anymore.

You may just have to format, take out the bad drive, install the good drive, and start over from scratch.

Hope that helps



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