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How can i replace a faulty hard drives in a virtual drive

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If your talking a vm. If you take snapshots you could revert it back to a known working snapshot and then clone the VM. If you mean you have a faulty physical drive in a raid 5 just replace the drive and the raid will do the rest.

Otherwise I'd say just rebuild the VM.

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