Use the diagnostics utility available from the hd manufacturers site
Basically you create a bootable floppy/cd & boot from this to run the tests
Note raid 0 has no redundency, lose one hd you lose it all
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>I have vista home premium on a Dell 9200 Dimension with 2 x 250 Gb hard
> drives configured to raid 0. I get an error showing at startup that disk
> 0
> is ok but disk 1 has an error.
> I have re-installed the Intel Storage Matrix driver R158601 and the Intel
> Storage Matrix Manager R158600. When I look at the Manager I see that a
> read
> or a write error has occurred on disk 1. Chkdsk shows no errors
>
> I have done a backup. I would like to know how to find out if it is a
> hardware or software error and what I can do to sort the problem out.