topic VGN-AR31S RAID Volume Failure in PCs & Accessories https://community.sony.lt/t5/pcs-accessories/vgn-ar31s-raid-volume-failure/m-p/109287#M76958 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>i have very recently bought a VGN-AR31S laptop and all was working perfectly. however about 2 days later the latptop crashed and when it rebooted a message in the bottom left corner of the screen told me that the RAID Volume 0 was failing. now whenever i turn the laptop on the message always appears. i've been ensured by the support team on the phone that there isn't a hard drive problem, and i can turn it off so the message doesn't appear but surely with a brand new laptop that is only about 4 days old this shouldn't be the case. any ideas/suggestions? i'm not exactly computer savvy so don't know the ins and outs of hardrives and RAID problems!<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:29:04 GMT theblondeone 2007-04-18T09:29:04Z VGN-AR31S RAID Volume Failure https://community.sony.lt/t5/pcs-accessories/vgn-ar31s-raid-volume-failure/m-p/109287#M76958 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>i have very recently bought a VGN-AR31S laptop and all was working perfectly. however about 2 days later the latptop crashed and when it rebooted a message in the bottom left corner of the screen told me that the RAID Volume 0 was failing. now whenever i turn the laptop on the message always appears. i've been ensured by the support team on the phone that there isn't a hard drive problem, and i can turn it off so the message doesn't appear but surely with a brand new laptop that is only about 4 days old this shouldn't be the case. any ideas/suggestions? i'm not exactly computer savvy so don't know the ins and outs of hardrives and RAID problems!<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:29:04 GMT https://community.sony.lt/t5/pcs-accessories/vgn-ar31s-raid-volume-failure/m-p/109287#M76958 theblondeone 2007-04-18T09:29:04Z Re: VGN-AR31S RAID Volume Failure https://community.sony.lt/t5/pcs-accessories/vgn-ar31s-raid-volume-failure/m-p/109288#M76959 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>You could do a system restore, then you'll see if it's hardware related.<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 12:51:44 GMT https://community.sony.lt/t5/pcs-accessories/vgn-ar31s-raid-volume-failure/m-p/109288#M76959 kee-lo_ 2007-04-18T12:51:44Z Re: VGN-AR31S RAID Volume Failure https://community.sony.lt/t5/pcs-accessories/vgn-ar31s-raid-volume-failure/m-p/109289#M76960 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>did one as soon as it happened but the message still keeps coming up. thanks for you help though.<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:02:50 GMT https://community.sony.lt/t5/pcs-accessories/vgn-ar31s-raid-volume-failure/m-p/109289#M76960 theblondeone 2007-04-18T13:02:50Z Re: VGN-AR31S RAID Volume Failure https://community.sony.lt/t5/pcs-accessories/vgn-ar31s-raid-volume-failure/m-p/109290#M76961 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Have you done the Hard Disk Diagnostics in VAIO diagnostics?<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:04:51 GMT https://community.sony.lt/t5/pcs-accessories/vgn-ar31s-raid-volume-failure/m-p/109290#M76961 kee-lo_ 2007-04-18T13:04:51Z Re: VGN-AR31S RAID Volume Failure https://community.sony.lt/t5/pcs-accessories/vgn-ar31s-raid-volume-failure/m-p/109291#M76962 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>yes tried this last night, but still didn't work.<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 24 Apr 2007 06:35:11 GMT https://community.sony.lt/t5/pcs-accessories/vgn-ar31s-raid-volume-failure/m-p/109291#M76962 theblondeone 2007-04-24T06:35:11Z Re: VGN-AR31S RAID Volume Failure https://community.sony.lt/t5/pcs-accessories/vgn-ar31s-raid-volume-failure/m-p/109292#M76963 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>As it's so new I would return it to the shop and ask them to swap it.<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:45:06 GMT https://community.sony.lt/t5/pcs-accessories/vgn-ar31s-raid-volume-failure/m-p/109292#M76963 kee-lo_ 2007-04-24T11:45:06Z