Gigabyte with RAID 5 crashed

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I decided to bring my crashed RAID 0 + 5 home from the "Experts" and paid a fee for them had been analying them for a week. When I got there the guy who I been deling with before wasn't there and it was some other guy who was on the verge to close the shop at 2pm. ****ing clowns.

Anyway I got the 3 x harddisk home and put them back in and started the computer and it halted in the same way as before, only showing 1 drive.




Disconnected harddisk #1 and tried again, this time though the screen looked a little different and said something like "Controlled by Raid Bios" and found one harddisk, didn't take a photo of it.



Reconnected harddisk #1 and disconnected harddisk #2 and restarted and suddenly the RAID volumes was listed and showing the status of them






Raid Volume MatrixRAID0winXP has FAILED
Thats the Raid 0 (stripe) with c: which has Windows XP on it

Raid Volume MatrixRAID5wPrg has been DEGRADED
Thats the Raid 5 (parity) with d: which has all data on it, and some ghost files that I didn't backup on other media


DSC13283-RAID-disk13ok-disk2bad




Pressed Ctrl I and entered the Raid bios
DSC13284-RAIDbios-disk13




It's hard to read some lines/menus from the photos taken, tried to zoom in
DSC13286-RAIDbios-create








Well it looks like harddisk #2 has died, so I almost went the nearby computer store to buy a "spare" 500GB harddisk to put in, but they had closed for vacation but anyway found one in the a webshop, they had only one 500GB in store so I drove to town and got it and have now put it in the computer



DSC13288-RAIDbios-disk2spare




I pressed ENTER so now it is in REBUILD status, and will start to rebuild the Raid 5 once I get Windows XP up and running again.

DSC13290-RAIDbios-Rebuild









I'm wondering how to proceed here.

...should it be something like this?
1) Delete the FAILED volume on c:
2) Create a new volume MatrixRAID0winXP c:
3) Disconnect all usb 1.1 devices
4) Connect an external usb 2 harddisk (Mybook-1) with older ghost images on it

5) Start ghost from floppy and load a ghost from Mybook-1 to c:
6) Disconnect Mybook-1, reconnect usb1.1 and restart computer
7) Hope windows starts and then it will start the REBUILD of d: (takes 2-4 hours)

8) Do a backup of d: to my other Mybook-2 (takes 5-15 hours)

9) Disconnect the RAID harddisks #1 #2 #3


10) Think about a better RAID-configuration