Replacing a Drive

ATTENTION  Be sure to back up the data on the virtual drive before you replace a drive.

Follow these steps to add a replacement drive and copy the data from the drive that was removed to the replacement drive.

1.	Click the Logical tab in the left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window.

2.	Select a drive in the left panel of the window.

3.	Either select Go To > Physical Drive > Replace Physical Drive on the menu bar, or right-click the virtual drive icon to access the Modify Drive Group wizard.

The dialog with the replacement drive appears, as shown in the following figure.

Figure 71. Drive Replacement Window

4.	Select a replacement drive.

A confirmation message appears.

5.	Click Yes.

This step replaces a drive and copies the data to the selected component.