How to break an old raid

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moemoe111

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I just built a new system around Vista Ultimate x64 and have the OS installed on a 600 gb sata hd. My previous system had 2 74gb raptors at Raid 0. I assumed that I could take each out, format it, and pop it into the new system but apparently I'm not quite as smart as I think I am.

I removed one of the 74 gb raptors, put it in the new system, booted up, formated the drive, no problem. HOWEVER, when I put the second of the previously Raided drives into the new system, it is not recognized at all. While the bios recognizes both of the 74 gb raptors (each has the same id/serial number in the bios btw), vista only sees one.

How to I get vista to see that I have three independent drives? Raid is disabled in my bios.

Thank you.
 

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Hi, moemoe111


Try putting only the second rapture drive in your computer, insert your vista dvd and perform an install up to the point where you have formatted the drive, then break off the install place your new drive back in with the second rapture drive, remembering to set your new drive to boot up, boot up the system and format the second rapture drive.



Hopefully this will work

Pooch
 

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    8 gig Samsung PC800 RAM
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    NVidia 9600gt
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    AD1988b
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    22" TFT-MONITOR WIDESCREEN mit VGA/DVI 17" Video7 TFT
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    Drive #1 - SAMSUNG HD252HJ (250 GB)
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moemoe111 said:
I just built a new system around Vista Ultimate x64 and have the OS installed on a 600 gb sata hd. My previous system had 2 74gb raptors at Raid 0. I assumed that I could take each out, format it, and pop it into the new system but apparently I'm not quite as smart as I think I am.

I removed one of the 74 gb raptors, put it in the new system, booted up, formated the drive, no problem. HOWEVER, when I put the second of the previously Raided drives into the new system, it is not recognized at all. While the bios recognizes both of the 74 gb raptors (each has the same id/serial number in the bios btw), vista only sees one.

How to I get vista to see that I have three independent drives? Raid is disabled in my bios.

Thank you.
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I BELIEVE the RAID information is stored on the HDD's because I swapped out my mobo for a new one, new RAID controller came with it. was slightly concerned it would kill my array. Anyhoo...It didn't.

I would recomment you go into the RAID utility within the BIOS and delete the array there if one is present.
 

My Computer

System One

  • CPU
    Intel Q9550 @ 3.2Ghz (OC)
    Memory
    4 GIG DDR2-6400
    Graphics Card(s)
    ATI Radeon 3750
    Sound Card
    Creative X-Fi
    Monitor(s) Displays
    22" LCD
    Screen Resolution
    1680 x 1050
    Hard Drives
    (2) 500 Gig SATAII 32mb Cache in RAID 0 array
    PSU
    Antec TruPower 650W
    Internet Speed
    10Mbps Cable
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