Mirrored drives and windows 7

[sunderz]

I have put this in windows software but it's a hardware issue also.

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

 

[bremen1874]

You should be able to break the mirror without loosing anything. You should end-up with two basically identical drives. As always you should have anything you care about backed-up before you try it.

If the mirror is needing to regularly re-sync then you may have a bad drive. Make sure you test both drives properly before trusting any data to them.