RAID - 1 and repair question

Hi all,
I have an AMD 770-C45 motherboard.
After setup a raid-1 with 2 500GB disks, 1 of the disk becomes unusable at the RAID set.
The raid set is still visible within Windows XP as RAID disk.
Within the Raid config at BIOS, the 2nd disk has been defined as stand alone.
I removed the 2nd defective disk and inserted a new disk with larger capacitiy and better speed.
Now the 2nd disk is visible but also as stand alone disk.
How can I repair the original RAID-1 set with the new inserted disk??
Thank you,
Mario

Lookout has not shown issues for any system we have had using RAID 0,1, 1+0, and 5.
Good luck,
Mike
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