Mark works as a Network Administrator for Technet Inc. The company has a Windows 2003 domainbased network. The network has a file server that uses a RAID-5 volume. The RAID-5 volume is configured with five hard disk drives. Over the weekend, a drive in the RAID-5 volume fails. What will Mark do to restore the RAID-5 volume?

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A. Replace the failed drive with a new one, use Disk Management, select a new area of free space, RAID-5 uses distributed parity across all drives, so a single drive failure does not cause data loss. The correct recovery process in Windows Server 2003 is to physically replace the failed drive with a new one, then use Disk Management to select the new free space area and repair the volume, which triggers automatic rebuild using the parity data from the remaining drives.

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B. Use FDISK to delete the RAID-5 volume, and then restore data from the tape backup. FDISK is a legacy partitioning tool and cannot manage dynamic disk volumes or RAID sets; additionally, deleting the volume and restoring from tape is unnecessary since RAID-5 retains data after a single drive failure.

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C. Use Disk Management, select the failed drive, and then regenerate the volume. You cannot regenerate a RAID-5 volume without first replacing the failed physical drive; regeneration requires a new disk to write rebuilt data onto.

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D. Replace the failed drive with a new one, use FDISK, select a new area of free space, and then FDISK does not support dynamic disk RAID management in Windows Server 2003; Disk Management is the correct tool for rebuilding a RAID-5 volume.

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