Removed a drive from raid, trying to use it as a data drive

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trick0502

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so i took a drive from a raid and im trying to use it as a data drive. windows sees the drive in device manager, but not in disk manager. i think the drive still has something on it that says its part of a raid. how can i fix this?
 
Since you are in Windows, use diskpart to clean the drive. Then set it up as a new drive. This will get rid of any left-over raid information.
 
doesnt show in disk part. it also shows in intel rst.
 

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^ that or reconnect it to the raid controller and remove the raid setup on the drive.
 
you could also just run windows setup and delete the partition from there then cancel the setup. I had SSDs in raid and my mobo failed. when I reinstalled/rebuilt I reused one as a boot drive and windows was able to delete it just fine.
 
What kind of array did you remove it from? Some SAN boxes and enterprise servers use sector counts that are not standard for windows (520/528) compared to the 512 that is standard for Windows. This is the way they will manifest where the hardware sees the drive but the software can't use it. If this is the case, you can reformat them by following the steps here.
 
It was in a h97 Intel raid. Now it’s in a q270 (?) mb.

I think I’m going to try the windows installer disk and dban.

It’s my work pc, so it’ll have ti wait till Monday.
 
make a USB setup drive over the weekend then; disconnect the primary drive, start setup from usb, delete partition and shutdown, reconnect primary, power up. that should get it going.
 
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