# Making a Drive Online

You can change the state of a physical drive to online. In an online state, the physical drive works normally and is a part of a configured virtual drive.

1. Navigate to the Controller dashboard, and click a drive group name (for example, DG_1), then click the icon that corresponds to a drive group to display its contents.
   The virtual drives and physical drives associated with the selected drive group appear.
2. Click the Physical Drive tab, and select the offline drive that you want to make online.
3. Select Actions > Make Drive Online.
   The drive status changes to Online.