Repair a volume with degraded data after moving disks between computers

This section gives steps you can take if you used the Deport Dynamic Disk Group and Import Dynamic Disk Group commands to move disks between computers and the disks contain mirrored or RAID-5 dynamic volumes with degraded data.

To resolve the problem:

  1. Deport the disks on the computer they were moved to and then physically move the disks back to the computer where they originated.
  2. Use Rescan to make sure all the disks are installed correctly.

    If the volume showed Degraded status before the disks were moved, the volume continues to show a Degraded status when the disks are moved back.

  3. Make sure the status of the disk that contained the degraded mirror or parity information is not Offline.

    If the status is Offline, check for any hardware problems, and reconnect the disk, if necessary.

  4. Use the Reactivate Disk command to bring the disk back online.

    Dynamic disks belonging to a Microsoft Disk Management Disk Group do not support the Reactivate Disk command.

    If the hardware problem is corrected, the disk shows a Healthy status, any mirrored volumes on the disk are resynchronized, and any RAID-5 volumes generate parity.

  5. If any volume still shows Degraded status, use the Reactivate Volume command on that volume.

    Dynamic disks belonging to a Microsoft Disk Management Disk Group do not support the Reactivate Volume command.

    Storage Foundation attempts to bring the volume back online. You may see a warning message indicating that Storage Foundation may not be able to bring back all of the data on the volume.

    If Storage Foundation successfully brings the volume back online, the status of the volume becomes Healthy.

  6. Now you can deport the dynamic disk group and move all the dynamic disk group's disks to the second computer.

    Be sure to move all the disks that are involved in the disk group at the same time to ensure that your volumes have the Healthy status on the second computer.