Windows 7 Ultimate and RAID 5

I have had a win7 Ultimate 64bt running on a Dell XPS 420 with 4 drives. Disk 0 is a 300GB containing the OS. Disks 1,2,3 are 2TB seagate drives that I had installed and opted to create a RAID 5 volume. One of the disks failed, it was easy
to identify as it was making a loud clicking noise. I removed the drive and got a replacement. When I installed the drive, as you can see in the picture, the bad disk 3, went to disk 4 and the new drive is now Disk 3. My question is how to
get the new disk 3 to replace the old one disk 4 that is "missing".
I have looked far for information on using Raid5 on a Windows 7 Ultimate OS and have not been able to find any information.
Also, will my data will be restored? I also used carbonite to backup all the important data but it would be nice to get the unimportant data back as well. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi,
Please follow this guide to use Windows interface or command line to replace a disk region in the RAID-5 volume:
Replace a disk region in the RAID-5 volume
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc738360(v=ws.10).aspx
Meanwhile, please refer to this helpful article:
Recovering a RAID-5 Volume
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc938528.aspx
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