Deleted Array, now missing a Drive Letter

Tahoe916

Tahoe916

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Wierd one that I have googled the bejesus out of and can't figure it out. I hope I'm just being special and missing something easy.

I had 2 500GB maxtors in a RAID0 array being controlled by my EVGA 680i mobo. I am moving to a P45 chipset so I migrated my data off the drives, broke the array in the RAID BIOS and booted back into Vista Ultmiate x64.

Now, for fun while I wait for my mobo to arrive, I stripped those disks in Vista as I was curious how bad the performance really was, my problem is that I really wanted the array to be the same drive letter it was before in Vista, (E:\), but when I go to change it to E: its not available in the Disk Management. Is there something I have to do to make E: available again?

I tried DISKPART in a cmd window to try to manually remove the E:, but you have to select a volume to manually remove it and the volume isnt there anymore.

Any ideas? Am I retarded? High? Both? Any help is greatly appreciated.
 
Oh and if you're wondering, I copied 5gb over to it and got about 90 MB/s, definitely not awesome, but better than I thought it would be.
 
Hrm, nothing huh? Any ideas where to search for an answer? I cant find anything in KB's or on google =/
 
It sounds to me like you might already have something assigned to drive e:

Like maybe your CDROM/DVD drive?

If so, change the drive letter on your drive taking up E, and then E will be available for assigning.
 
I found out it was PowerISO, nothing was attached to the fake drive so it didnt show up in anything, but the drive letter was taken by the program. Lame, thanks for the help though!
 
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