RAID 1 recovery... stuck!

Hi folks - I installed 2 160g SATA drives (WD ones) a while back and configured them as RAID 1. They've been working away fine for quite a while, but today the machine froze a couple of times and then finally bluescreened on restart - the RAID bios thingy said that the RAID was critical and one of the drives had failed.
What do I do now? It didn't tell me which one - so how do I find out? (I presume it only knows that they are not matching, not which one is corrupted). I was thinkinging I could disconnect each one at a time and do a chkdsk from the recovery console, but It can't see any disks at all...
Luckily I have my laptop, and have been googling, but although there is endless info on setting up RAID, I can't find any information on one to do when it goes wrong....!
Any pointers would be invaluable and v much appreciated...
Thanks, theWoosh
KT400 Ultra motherboard w onboard SATA RAI controller
etc. (cant tell u at the moment!)

Well - the WD diagnostics software fixed some errors on one of the SATA disks (Im not quite sure which one - it said it was EC10 (as opposed to EC00 which tested fine), guess this means it is the second disk and I should be able to figure out which one that is right(?!). Anyway, I dont really know what to do now - I have no log of what the diags did - or if there is a physical error on the disk...
I'm sure there is no problem in theory with rebuilding the array - it is a RAID 1 mirror (and was setup this way for precisely this sort of situation) so the non-faulty drive should have the data intact, Im just a little unclear how to go about it..
I could try to rebuild the RAID array - I thought I could zero the drive that has had a problem (do I need to do this? or can I just use it as it is? Can I use this disk at all, or do I need to replace it?) and then do a rebuild, but I'm slightly worried about doing this (since this disk is at least a partial backup, and Im not sure which disk is which!).
Or I could wait till later when my replacement disk arrives and switch the dodgy one out b4 rebuilding.....
I think I need 2 take a closer look at this b4 doing anything....

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SATA 3 & 4 = Promise RAID controller
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To explain the issue,
I've setup 2 raid sets from the raid setup screen on bootup on the Hitachi's and the Seagates. One raid set is a backup of the other so obviously this is quite important to me .
Annoyance: display does not display anything until the windows bootup screen. I do not get to see the hotkeys for accessing boot device, bios or raid setup. BIOS is DEL I know that much, but the rest I have no idea and these options are not described in the manual.
After reinstalling Windows these are no longer recognized. At first all 4 disks were visible individually and windows was popping up chkdsk on bootup, which ive cancelled each time.
After installing the latest driver from intel (RST, same version was installed before reinstallation) I now get to see the 2 raid disks of the correct size but they are showing as RAW. Windows wants to initialize the disks.
It is giving me the option between MBR and GPT and advises to use GPT for >2TB drives. Both volumes are over 2TB but when I choose either option it pops up a message saying the "system cannot find the file specified". Also I am not sure whether I've used MBR or GPT previously but both give the error message.
I hope someone can help me here, thanks in advance!

Well I figured out what went wrong. After configuring the raid sets the controller was set back to AHCI mode. Raid info is retained on the disks so that worked fine, until I reinstalled without setting it back to RAID mode.
When I reinstalled Windows the raid sets didn't show up anymore and when I switched the controller to RAID mode after a reinstall attempt, both sets showed failed.
Whatever caused this I don't know, maybe because I tried to reinstall Windows while it was in AHCI mode and Windows screwed up the raid sets because it didn't detect the individual disks belonged to a raid set?
All data is intact it's just the raid info that's gone or corrupt. I'm running a raid recovery tool and it seems to be able to pull all the data off of the raid sets succesfully. It's gonna take a while though

RAID 1 recovery... stuck!

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