60 Advanced Features8 On the Select Member Hard Drive screen, double-click the two or threedrives to select the member drives that you want to use in theconfiguration, and click Next.9 On the Specify Volume Size screen, select the volume size you want, andclick Next.NOTICE: In step 10, all data contained on the member drive will be removed.10 Click Finish to start migrating, or click Back to make changes. You can useyour computer normally during migration process.Creating a Spare Hard DriveNOTICE: A spare hard drive must be at least the same size as the larger of the twodrives in the RAID configuration that it supports. Otherwise, the spare hard drivewill not function. The RAID utility will not notify you if you fail to select a largeenough drive.A spare hard drive may be created with a RAID level 1 configuration. Thespare hard drive will not be recognized by the operating system, but you willbe able to see the spare drive from within Disk Manager or the Intel RAIDOption ROM utility. When a member of the RAID level 1 configuration isbroken, the computer automatically rebuilds the mirror configuration usingthe spare hard drive as the broken member’s replacement.To mark a drive as a spare hard drive:1 Click the Start button and point to Programs→ Intel(R) Matrix StorageManager→ Intel Matrix Storage Console to launch the Intel StorageUtility.2 Right-click the hard drive you want to mark as a spare hard drive.3 Click Mark as Spare.To remove spare marking from a spare hard drive:1 Right-click the spare hard-drive icon.2 Click Reset Hard Drive to Non-RAIDRebuilding a Degraded RAID Level 1 or 5 ConfigurationIf your computer does not have a spare hard drive, and the computer hasreported a degraded RAID level 1 or 5 volume, you can manually rebuild thecomputer’s redundancy mirror to a new hard drive:
