My m18xR2 laptop has three hard drives. (system info at bottom) A 256GB ssd and two 1TB drives that i was running in RAID1. The RAID1 setup was not updating all the time but updated when i pressed ctrl + I at startup. The other day i plugged my phone in and was going to updated a few things with itunes and something happened and everything in itunes seemed to lock up. After rebooting, windows loaded very slowly. i could not open the start menu or anything in the system trey. ctrl+alt+del was the only thing that seem to respond but only for a few seconds. After another restart running scandisk it completely stopped booting and i got an error saying that the OS could not be loaded. Unfortunately i had not yet backed everything up to an external HDD or anything. I had backed up the RAID1 to the second disk a few days before.
My question is how do i use the backup to repair the first disk or set what was the secondary drive to the primary one? is this possible? Could this be a virus? I usually can figure out these problems but this is my first time dealing with RAID and not sure where to start. Do I physically swap these two drives or is there more to it?
I pasted system info from AIDA64 program sorry if its overkill:
Computer Type ACPI x64-based PC (Mobile)
Operating System Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate
OS Service Pack Service Pack 1
Internet Explorer 10.0.9200.16686
DirectX DirectX 11.0
Motherboard
CPU Type Mobile QuadCore Intel Core i7-3840QM, 3600 MHz (36 x 100)
Motherboard Name Alienware M18xR2
Motherboard Chipset Intel Panther Point HM77, Intel Ivy Bridge
System Memory 32720 MB (DDR3-1600 DDR3 SDRAM)
DIMM1: SK Hynix HMT41GS6MFR8C-PB 8 GB DDR3-1600 DDR3 SDRAM (11-11-11-28 @ 800 MHz) (10-10-10-27 @ 761 MHz) (9-9-9-24 @ 685 MHz) (8-8-8-22 @ 609 MHz) (7-7-7-19 @ 533 MHz) (6-6-6-16 @ 457 MHz) (5-5-5-14 @ 380 MHz)
DIMM2: SK Hynix HMT41GS6MFR8C-PB 8 GB DDR3-1600 DDR3 SDRAM (11-11-11-28 @ 800 MHz) (10-10-10-27 @ 761 MHz) (9-9-9-24 @ 685 MHz) (8-8-8-22 @ 609 MHz) (7-7-7-19 @ 533 MHz) (6-6-6-16 @ 457 MHz) (5-5-5-14 @ 380 MHz)
DIMM3: SK Hynix HMT41GS6MFR8C-PB 8 GB DDR3-1600 DDR3 SDRAM (11-11-11-28 @ 800 MHz) (10-10-10-27 @ 761 MHz) (9-9-9-24 @ 685 MHz) (8-8-8-22 @ 609 MHz) (7-7-7-19 @ 533 MHz) (6-6-6-16 @ 457 MHz) (5-5-5-14 @ 380 MHz)
DIMM4: SK Hynix HMT41GS6MFR8C-PB 8 GB DDR3-1600 DDR3 SDRAM (11-11-11-28 @ 800 MHz) (10-10-10-27 @ 761 MHz) (9-9-9-24 @ 685 MHz) (8-8-8-22 @ 609 MHz) (7-7-7-19 @ 533 MHz) (6-6-6-16 @ 457 MHz) (5-5-5-14 @ 380 MHz)
BIOS Type Insyde (01/31/2013)
Display
Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M (2 GB)
3D Accelerator nVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M
Monitor Samsung 184HT [18.4" LCD]
Multimedia
Audio Adapter Creative CA0132 @ Intel Panther Point PCH - High Definition Audio Controller [C-1]
Audio Adapter nVIDIA HDMI/DP @ nVIDIA GK104 - High Definition Audio Controller
Storage
IDE Controller Realtek PCIE CardReader
Storage Controller Intel(R) Mobile Express Chipset SATA RAID Controller
Disk Drive HGST HTS721010A9E630 (1000 GB, 7200 RPM, SATA-III)
Disk Drive HGST HTS721010A9E630 (1000 GB, 7200 RPM, SATA-III)
Disk Drive SAMSUNG SSD PM830 2.5" 7 (238 GB, IDE)
Disk Drive SDHC Card (1863 GB)
Disk Drive WD Ext HDD 1021 USB Device (29 GB, USB)
Optical Drive HL-DT-ST DVDRWBD CA40N (BD:6x, DVD+RW:8x/8x, DVD-RW:8x/6x, DVD-ROM:8x BD-ROM/DVD+RW/DVD-RW)
SMART Hard Disks Status FAIL
Partitions
C: (NTFS) 917.8 GB (505.8 GB free)
D: (NTFS) 917.8 GB (474.0 GB free)
E: (NTFS) 14010 MB (5743 MB free)
F: (NTFS) 238.5 GB (168.9 GB free)
thanks for any help!