Ok...I have a new question. I put in a new drive in place of the failing drive, exact same manufacturer, part #, & size. Booted into HP Embedded Sata Raid Configurator and performed a full format on the drive (took about 17 hours to do this). Once done I re-booted back into the Raid Config and set the drive as a spare. However, when trying to rebuild the array it gives me a message that either the array cannot be rebuilt (not sure why this would be) or that the size of the spare is not right.
So when I check the disks it lists them as the same size. However, when going into the "Manage Array" screen it reports the spare drive as being .1 GB less than the other drive (the one trying to rebuild array from). This has me stumped. The drive I installed is the same size, manufacturer, and part # of the drive I took out. Also did a full format.
Do I need to go in and actually configure the drive (not sure what this does, just says it will round off the size of the disk)? I did not want to mess with this and risk screwing up the array info and losing data. Not sure what to do at this point in time.