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I have a server based upon a Tyan S2505T Tiger 200T motherboard with
Promise RAID controller onboard. After a few years of running with 2
Western Digital 120 GByte HDDs in mirrored (RAID 1) mode with Windows
2000 Server and Small Business Server 2000 installed, one of the drives
failed. I removed it until I could procure a replacement. I have been
running the server in single HDD mode until the new HDDs arrived.

The new drive is unformatted and I used the FastBuild utility in an
attempt to rebuild the array using choice 5 in the top level menu. After
3% of the disk copying has been completed, a message is displayed
stating the source drive (the original HDD) has encountered an
unspecified error. The same error is seen after I swapped in another
spare HDD of the same model.

I have run a disk error check on the several partitions of the original
(source) disk and it does not show any problems.

One of the partitions on the source disk contains a dedicated Windows
swap area.

I have not attempted to delete the existing array. It still exists in
the Promise FastBuild software.

The original documentation in the Tyan manual is sparse. Is my procedure
incorrect? Any there any more detailed instructions as to how to
successfully rebuild my mirrored RAID array.?