I got it to work. In case anyone gets into this situation, let me try remember and write down what I did. Important!!! I would get professional help if you're working with a critical server!!  note that after a few tries getting the server back online, the bad disk started to blink amber and the main display on the server was also amber. I did these steps below with the disks removed. Discard Preserved Cache After the steps above I could not see the import menu anymore with the disk installed. This is what I did to get that option back, note these steps I did must have put lots of stress on the disks!  1. while the sever is turned off. I got my replacement disk and physically stuck both the old working disk and the new disk in the server 2. turn on the server and ctrl-r to get to the controller bios. via the menu, recreate the raid1 virtual disk (do not initialize!!!) 3. physically remove both disks and clear the current raid 1 configuration via the menu 4. physically added the 1 old disk with the data that I wanted to recover. After this, I could see the import menu 5. imported from the old disk 6. boot up and it worked!   I probably could have eliminated many steps above. It's just a matter of making the controller think there's foreign disks in the server. Next step was to rebuild the raid. I followed How To repair a working RAID 1 array on Dell T610 PERC6i Thanks!  
Hi, I need some assistance on a PowerEdge R610. I came in this morning to a black screen. On the bottom of the screen it read, "all of the disks from your previous configuration are gone". I could hear a faint grinding noise from disk 0, but no amber lights anywhere. I shut the server down, pulled out disk 0, and turned it back on but I still have the black screen. (hope you can see the images below, note this is after I pulled disk 0) I went into the perc 6/i integrated BIOS screen and in VD management I see, "No Configuration Present !". PD Mgmt screen shows disk 1 as foreign. 1. I want to see if I can boot to disk 1. How would I do this? 2. This is on a hyper v 2012 core server. With an extra disk coming in, what is the procedure to rebuild using the integrated BIOS screen? (Let me know if OpenManage would run on a core server, I'm willing to try even though it's part of a cluster). I want to make sure that the correct disk is rebuilt in the raid.  Thanks!!! [IMAGE]  [IMAGE] [IMAGE]
help with perc 6/i, crashed disk, rebuilding raid 1 poweredge r610