'Drive in a Raid 0 Volume is Failing.' Error Message on Gateway FX p7805u

Hey,

I just turned on my laptop when an error message, "Drive in a Raid 0 Volume is Failing. Try to backup data immediately" pops up.

When I clicked on the message, it brings me to 'Intel Matrix Storage Console' which shows that one of my 2 Seagate 320GB hard drives (running in Raid 0), Port 0 has a status which says that an error has occurred. I've backed up all the files I want onto external hard drives, but now I'm not really sure what to do. The error message has disappeared, but the Intel Console still says that an error has occurred, although I can't detect any difference in the laptop's performance.

The laptop is running Windows 7 64bit Ultimate edition.

I also downloaded Seatools (as recommended on another forum), but it hasn't found anything wrong in the couple of tests I've done.

Any help as to what to do next would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance.

 

You should continue to use the hard drives as normal, but you should run a daily chkdsk (check disk) scan to make sure that the drive is stable. To view the reports, open up Windows PowerShell and copy and paste the following text into it and hit enter.

get-winevent -FilterHashTable @{logname="Application"; id='1001'}| ?{$_.providername –match "wininit"} | fl timecreated, message

Be aware that the most recent reports are at the top of the list.

Make sure you save anything important on another drive until you are totally sure that the drive is stable. Good luck. It is quite possible that everything will be fine. My story is that Windows all of a sudden wouldn't boot and none of the recovery features worked so I took it into the university repair shop and they told me that my drive was failing and needed to be replaced (and the s refused to reinstall Windows or give me an install disc and tried to sell me a new hard drive for $120-$160!). Long story short: they were wrong!

 

Just to update, as I was finishing up a Seatools long scan the laptop went to the dreaded Blue Screen of Death and rebooted. The regular start up screen appeared and said that it was bootable, but there was an error with one of the hard drives. It came up with options to either start in safe or normal mode, but I thought I'd leave it to cool down overnight before I try again.

 

I had some creepiness happening to my RAID some time back and split it before problems became serious. The problems would not allow me to image the system which aggravated me. Notebook RAID is indeed a problem without a 3rd resident drive for the data. Actually I'm still using the two drives I had in RAID 0 without problem for over a year.

Unless you have some pressing reason to want the RAID, it may be time to reinstall without RAID and simplify life.

 

Ultimate Destruction,,,I get a error message when I enter this:

get-winevent -FilterHashTable @{logname="Application"; id='1001'}| ?{$_.providername –match "wininit"} | fl timecreated, message

in the power shell. Using Win 7.

 

@TreeTops Ranch
I copied the statement right. Maybe you need to run the powershell as an administrator.

Also there is a GUI way of finding the reports using the Event Viewer I think but I could never find it.

 

So does anyone know the exact steps I should take next? I'm unable to boot Windows now, so should I delete the Raid volume now? Then I'm not really sure what to do after that.