Recovering from a failed drive is simple. You just have to remove the mirror and add a mirror to the new drive.


Recovering from a failed secondary drive


1. In Disk Management, right click your first partition and choose Remove Mirror...

2. Do the same to other partitions.

3. Now, with the new drive in place, build the new mirror as described in the first part of this how to.


Recovering from a failed primary drive


You need to get your hands dirty a bit.

1. Open up your server's casing and remove the failed drive (primary disk)

2. Move the second drive to the first SATA/IDE port (where the primary drive was previously connected)

3. Start up the server, boot normally. Disk Management will look something like this:
Notice the Missing status on the mirror drive. We removed the mirror and moved it to become the primary drive. Thus, the missing status.


4. Right click on the first partition in Disk 0 and choose Remove Mirror...

Do the same to other partitions.


5. The following prompt may appear because the mirror drive is missing. It is safe to just click OK.


6. Disk Management should look something like this.


7. You can now proceed to Adding a mirror as described in the first part of this how to.