I have a desktop PC (about 4 years old) with 2 HD configured as "Striped RAID" (I think) which shows up as a single C Drive of just under 500GB. During boot, one of the screens shows 2 HDs being checked, on Ports 0 and 2 respectively. Recently, the HD on Port 2 has had a red message 'There Is A Problem', which really doesn't tell me much! The PC itself appears to run OK once the boot is complete (Win XP).

I have contacted the manufacturer of the PC who recommends using Device Manager to check what HDs are installed ("probably either Western Digital or Seagate", he says), then downloading software from the manufacturer to check them. Unfortunately, this does no good. Device Manager just shows a single C Drive, with no faults, and unknown manufacturer. The boot screen which has the error message appears only very briefly, but I am fairly certain it says the HDs are Samsung SP2504C, both of about 230GB.

Is that screen likely to be correct? Is there any other way I can check what the drives are? And what diagnostics can/should I run once I have confirmed the model info? Or would it be simpler just to replace the suspect drive, assuming I can tell which one it is!

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