Backup raid zero to external, reformat, then restore.. how to?

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"a drive in a raid 0 volume is failing. Try to back up data immediately"

I have two WD 640gb drives set up in raid 0 (motherboard controller). Despite this message computer still functions normally. I used macrium reflect to create a backup image of the desk on an external 1.5tb drive. Also burned a linux rescue CD using macrium.

I have downloaded WD data lifeguard. I ran "quick test" on the raid volume and it failed "cable test" and the diagnostic stopped. Not sure what to do next. Do I need to remove the raid array then diagnose the drives individually? If so, would it subsequently be possible to reconstruct the raid array and then restore the backed up disk image to it? If not, could the disk backup image be restored to just one of the two drives currently used in raid 0?
 
I would buy a single drive large enough to hold all of your current data and transfer it right away. Then break the raid 0 array test each drive.
 
Acronis or the program you said, but i trust Acronis myself, can get a free 30 day full trial.

Create an image, store it on your backup drive
Format
Restore image

done.

if it failed cable test, switch cables to a new one.
 
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