Mirrored drives and windows 7

[sunderz]

This is kinda a hardware issue as well but the main question is how windows will deal the issue.

So I have 2 internal 2T hdd mirrored. And I have an external 2T that's needs wiping and reformatting due to my mac laptop not being Abe to read it so I'm copying the stuff off onto my desktop PC. The mirrored drives keep failing everytime I restart the PC requiring it to sit for most of the day resynincing. The main issue I assume is why this is happening. But if I remove the mirror so I have 2x2tb drives just to get the data off my external and I can tackle the main issue later. If I do drop the mirror will I lose the data or have one drive with the data and one blank or will I have 2 drives with the same file structure??

Hope that makes sense and you guys can help?

Regards
Chris

 

[paradigm]

By "mirror" I assume you mean in a RAID 1 array?

If so, then yes, you can in theory take one drive out of the array and re-format it (but I'd do that elsewhere, another PC, etc), and the "array" will continue to run in a degraded state.

 

[KIA]

Backup all important data before attempting this.