You need to assign it as a hot-spare, then it will begin to rebuild in place of the missing disk ... that's just how it works.
Hello all, This is my first time posting so forgive me if I do not follow the proper rules.  I also do not know much about how this server was setup or really how to manage this since it was just dumped on me recently. I pretty much ran into the same issue as the original post and also have a Dell PowerEdge 2900 with a PERC 5i SAS RAID Controller.  I also have a failed hard drive and inserted a new one ordered from our Dell rep.   However, instead of modifying the Config Utility, I let the system reboot, then it offered me to load from Foreign Configuration which allowed my server to load into Windows.  It was fine for a small period of time but now it pretty much shuts down nightly by itself. Luckily this is an old storage server that isn't used any more and we do have plans to decommission it eventually.  But I like to have it stable enough so that I don't have to keep loading Foreign config daily to reboot the server. I am afraid to clear "Foreign configuration" because I don't know what effect that would have. Below are the Config Utility screens: [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE][IMAGE] Thanks for any help that I can get.
Dell PowerEdge 2900 - PERC 5i RAID Controller - Drive Failure