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 Boot the sytem and repeatedly press CTRL + A keys together to enter the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility. This will load into the Adaptec Raid Controller’s Bios.
 Select “Disk Utilities” from the Main Menu. While inside Disk Utilities, check that both of your hard drives are showing properly as SATA 3.0Gb/s. Then escape from Disk Utilities back to the Main Menu.
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-Press the Enter key. The Bios will warn you that one or more selected drives has a valid partition and that there is a risk of losing data if configured, and will ask “Do you want to continue? (Yes/No): Press the Y key for Yes. The message “Configuring the drives . . .” will briefly flash on the screen before you are returned to the Main Menu.
+Press the Enter key. The Bios will warn you that one or more selected drives has a valid partition and that there is a risk of losing data if configured, and will ask “Do you want to continue? (Yes/No): Press the Y key for Yes.
-Select “Manage Arrays” from the Main Menu. In the list of arrays, the two drives will each show as SIMPLE VOLUME, and the drive containing your operating system should be located on Port 0. If everything is correct here, then escape to the Main Menu. [Caution: It is absolutely imperative that the source drive be located on Port 0 before you proceed to create the Array. Otherwise, your operating system and/or data and/or partitions will be lost.]
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+The message “Configuring the drives . . .” will briefly flash on the screen before you are returned to the Main Menu.
-Select “Create Array” from the Main Menu. Next, press the space-bar on each of the drives in turn (on port 0 and then on port 1 or 2 as the case may be), so that both of the drives show in the top right side of the screen under “Selected Drives.” Then, press the ENTER key.
+Select “Manage Arrays” from the Main Menu.  ]
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+In the list of arrays, the two drives will each show as SIMPLE VOLUME, and the drive containing your operating system should be located on Port 0.
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+If everything is correct here, then escape to the Main Menu. [Caution: It is absolutely imperative that the source drive be located on Port 0 before you proceed to create the Array. Otherwise, your operating system and/or data and/or partitions will be lost.
+Select “Create Array” from the Main Menu.
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+Next, press the space-bar on each of the drives in turn (on port 00 and then on port 01 or 02 as the case may be),
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+so that both of the drives show in the top right side of the screen under “Selected Drives.”
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+Then, press the ENTER key.
 You will then arrive the “Array Properties” Screen. Select “RAID 1” as the type of RAID you want to use and press the Enter key.
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+Next type in the RAID Array Label (Array Name) that you want to use, such as ARRAY1 or EXCHANGE2010 and press the Enter key.
-Next type in the RAID Array Name that you want to use, such as ARRAY1 and press the Enter key. When you see “Create RAID via” you must choose “BUILD” and then press the Enter key.
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+When you see “Create RAID via” you must choose “BUILD” and then press the Enter key.
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 Next, press the Enter key to select “Done” at the bottom of the “Array Properties” screen.
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 In the next screen, you will SELECT SOURCE DRIVE by choosing the hard drive showing on Port 0 and press the enter key. NOTE: The source drive is the drive containing your existing operating system and/or data. The sectors of information on the Source drive will be copied (mirrored) onto the blank target drive on the new RAID-1 Array.
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 A warning message will appear that states: “Building the RAID 1 may take a few hours or more to complete. Do you still want to continue? (Yes/No):” Here, type Y for Yes to commence building the RAID-1 Array.
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-A progress screen will display the percentage of completion of the Array. It takes a very long time for the screen to display 1%. It takes approximately 15 hours to build a 1TB Array. I suppose that means it will take approximately 15 hours to build a 2TB Array.  I will let you know soon.  When finished at 100% build, there will be a message that appears: “Building the array is successfully completed.” You may now press ESC, ESC to exit the Array Configuration and type Y when prompted to exit and restart or reboot the system.
+A progress screen will display the percentage of completion of the Array.
-Note. It is __**INCORRECTLY**__ reported that after the progress screen has reached at least 1% completion, and if you have installed Adaptec Raid Storage Manager within your operating system, then you may be able to boot to the operating system and allow the RAID controller to finish the “build” in the background while your OS is live or your server is up and running online, and also be able to monitor the progress of your mirror “build” from within Adaptec Storage Manager program. <del>I vaguely remember trying this, but I don’t want to say for certain that I have.  This could mean that you may have the alternative to press and hold the off switch on the front of the case on your computer or server to force a hard shut down, and then restart and boot into the operating system and let the “build” continue while you may monitor the percentage completion from within Adaptec Raid Storage Manager application.</del>
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-Update: 07-21-2018 — __**Hard booting after the progress indicator shows at least 1% Build does NOT work.**__  It won’t boot all the way into the login screen or the OS.  It will try, but after 10 minutes the Windows Recovery screen comes up.  Just cancel and the system will reboot.  Press CTRL+A to go into the Adaptec Controller.  Under Manage Arrays, press Enter to select your current Array, and you should see that the status in “Building” with no progress indicator.  I could have waited about 30 hours to see if the build would complete on a 2TB drive.  However, I chose to escape back to the selected Array and then pressed CTRL+R to start a Rebuild.  The status will show REBUILDING and there will be a progress indicator starting at 0%.  Now, I wait 30 hours and see if the Array will actually boot next time.
+It takes a very long time for the screen to display 1% (approximately 15 minutes to build 1% of the Mirror).
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+It takes approximately 15 hours to build a 1TB Array. I suppose this means it will take approximately 30 hours to build a 2TB Array.  I will let you know soon.
+When finished at 100% build, there will be a message that appears: “Building the array is successfully completed.”
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+You may now press ESC, ESC to exit the Array Configuration and type Y when prompted to exit and restart or reboot the system.
+Note. It is __**INCORRECTLY**__ reported that after the progress screen has reached at least 1% completion, and if you have installed Adaptec Raid Storage Manager within your operating system, then you may be able to boot to the operating system and allow the Adaptec RAID Storage Manager (rather than the controller card) to finish the “build” in the background while your OS is live or your server is up and running online, and also be able to monitor the progress of your mirror “build” from within Adaptec Storage Manager program. <del>I vaguely remember trying this, but I don’t want to say for certain that I have.  This could mean that you may have the alternative to press and hold the off switch on the front of the case on your computer or server to force a hard shut down, and then restart and boot into the operating system and let the “build” continue while you may monitor the percentage completion from within Adaptec Raid Storage Manager application.</del>
+Update: 07-21-2018 — __**Hard booting after the progress indicator shows at least 1% Build does NOT work.**__  It won’t boot all the way into the login screen or into the OS.  It tried booting, but after 10 minutes the Windows Recovery screen comes up.  Just cancel and the system will reboot. Now, you probably need to restart the build, or more aptly put--start a rebuild. On reboot, Press CTRL+A to go into the Adaptec Controller.  Under Manage Arrays, press Enter to select your current Array, and you should see that the status in “Building” with no progress indicator.  I could have waited about 30 hours to see if the build would complete on a 2TB drive.  However, **I chose to escape back to the selected Array and then pressed CTRL+R to start a Rebuild**.  The status will show REBUILDING and there will be a progress indicator starting at 0%.  Now, I wait 30 hours and see if the Array will actually boot next time.
 <del>UNLESS YOU ABSOLUTELY NEED TO HAVE THE SERVER UP AND ONLINE, THEN</del> I INSTEAD RECOMMEND THAT YOU LET THE CONTROLLER CARD BIOS AND CONFIGURATION UTILITY FINISH THE “BUILD” TO 100% COMPLETE BEFORE REBOOTING INTO THE OPERATING SYSTEM.
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-Adaptec Support Knowledgebase
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+Source:  Adaptec Support Knowledgebase  (Link No Longer Available)