'A drive in a Raid 0 volume is failing' error?

[kissenger]

Hi all, this is my first post.

Since last night, I've been getting a 'Raid 0 volume is failing' error. This first happened after a system crash. Does anyone know if my laptop is going to die, or whether there are any solutions to the problem?

I read the post from about 6 months ago on the same issue, but it seemed pretty inconclusive. However, it mentioned in the post that the error message was caused by Vista and/or iTunes. I recently installed Vista, with iTunes - if I uninstall them, and perhaps format the drive on which they are installed, will I be able to use XP without any errors?

I was thinking of replacing the hard drives with one new, bigger one, because it seems so cheap to do. If I go down this route, is a new drive easy to install? Do I have to worry much about compatibility (I have a VGN-AR11S with 2 100GB, Serial ATAs(5400rpm)? Can I get a drive with a higher rpm count? What does buffer size matter?

Thanks for your help and advice in advance.

[Blencogo]

Hi kissenger and welcome to Club Vaio.

I recall that this was a known Vista bug. See Intel website Ref. No. 2294301 - Timeouts, degraded RAID volumes when playing/transcoding video files in Apple iTunes* and QuickTime* software - Windows Vista.

Intel fixed the problem with a new version of 'RAID/AHCI Software - Intel® Matrix Storage Manager (5596KB) 7.5.0.1017 6/4/2007' .

Download the updated version from here: -

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=N&ProductID=2101&DwnldID=13494&strOSs=163&OSFul...

[kissenger]

Hi Blencongo, I just did some more searching and found that post. Sorry for my laziness.

I'll check out the solution. Hope it works.