raid 1 array keeps "degrading"

mctrials23

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This is doing my nut, I made a raid 1 array from 2 samsung 160gb spinpoints. It was working ok and then suddenly when i rebooted, the two drives were flashing red in the bios and it said they were degraded. I did nothing but reboot and the whole thing ****** up. The best part is that you would have thought that it was a simple matter of rebuliding the array, but no because when i do it performs a disk check which asks me to press any key to skip but when i do press any key it ignores me and performs the check anyway. And it seems to recover random data that i have deleted from the array. Then in Windows i will not be able to delete these recovered files etc.

What the hell is going on here, i am very very ****** off tbh. The mobo is an MSI neo platinum 4. I am using the Nforce raid controller.
 
If a raid1 is degraded, it usually means the array is out of sync or 1 of the drives is down.

I would see what diagnostic/error logs you can retrieve from the system, in windows you may be able to look in the event viewer, or if you installed the RAID drivers/application they should tell you what the problem is.

If its a failed drive or a drive which is failing (normally they just drop in/out the raid or have bad sectors in them), then replace the drive.

If its an out of sync issue, then you must let the full sync take place to fix the errors (this can sometimes take a long time), and the array will be slow whilst this happens.

If your unsure about what your doing, then the best recommendation i could probably give is that you backup your data (you should have done this anyway the second you got problems) and rebuilt the array from scratch
 
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