saving a raid 0 setup from one failing drive?

[hypertek]

is it possible? when i boot up, i get the message "error" on one of the hard drives but it boots up and everything works.. windows tells me one of the drives is failing..

i got 2 seagate baracuda 7200.10 320gb drives...

I got a 250gb laptop hdd in my ps3, i could pull it out reformat it *ps3 game data id rather sacrifice to back up my pc* copy my c: contents to this drive, then maybe whip out the raid, remove the arrays and rebuild it????

[fritzman]

That does sound like a sensible option...

Essentially, you need to clone the Raid0 (C) drive straight onto the other spare (PS3 drive), then return your two Raid0 drives to 'non-raid' then clone from the PS3 drive back to the good single drive while the other one gets sorted.

Once you have it replaced, reverse the process and you are away again on a good Raid0 rig.

The other alternative is to buy a suitably sized external drive and image onto that, but then you have to mess with images rather than a straight cloning process.