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I'm lost. RAID

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Hos238

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Guy's. I'm lost I accidentally removed one of them from the raid after windows 7 failed to download onto them.

Then one of them is stuck in the volume. I can't get it out. I can't format it. I can't put the other one in. How can I get it back?
 
Is there actually a OS on them?

If there isn't, then just delete and recreate the raid.
 
Recreating the RAID can go wrong if the RAID engine changes the disk order this time. That could lead to total dataloss. Whether the OS is on it doesn't matter; he still wants to recover his data on the volume.
 
Thanks guys. I'm at work on my g1 so forgive my grammer.

What happened;

I was installing win 7 on the two drives in raid 0 this was called volume 0.

Windows failed to install after 17 %
Then I went into the controller. And tried to dissolve the array. It only removed one drive. And left the other one in.
I tried to delete the volume. No dice.

I tried to re add the other drive. It won't let me.

So that's where I'm at, I just want to remove the drive from the array so I can use it. I have windows on a hdd at the moment I can find both of the ssd's in disk manager one works. The other one ( stuck in the array) is grayed out and windows said it is unuseable; but unallocated.

I tried to reformat it when I installed windows on the hdd but it failed aswell.
 
When all else fails I just set to ide mode, let the first Linux live CD I see format the drives to FAT32, then just restart the whole raid rebuild/ windows installation. It may seem stupid, but this even works resetting "failed" drives on adaptec controllers that won't re-install.

Only suggesting this because you seem not to have any data on the drives, hence why diskpart or something that will destroy all data and let you re-start the Win7 installation process is a decent idea.
 
still no dice. errors every time i try a reformat through knoppix or ubuntu. i even tried killdisk. wth


I don't get it. there is NOTHING on the disk. Linux and windows see it as unallocated. yet it's still stuck in an array that doesn't exist. I've reformatted it's sister drive no problem. but this one seems content with being a paperweight.
 
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MSI, the makers of my motherboard. told me to remove all my hard drives but the two that are in question then try to recreate the array. Yeah still no dice. Trying patriot now...
 
If you want your RAID controller to not remember your disk, you need to zero write it, like:


sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M

WARNING: this writes zeros to the /dev/sda device (the first HDD) - please only do this with the drive you want to zero-write attached and all other HDDs/storage devices disconnected to prevent dataloss when you make a mistake. Execute this command in a terminal after having boot from an ubuntu livecd, open a terminal and enter the text. Wait 2 hours and its reset. /dev/sdb is the second HDD.
 
it just starts scrolling Error: blah blah sector 1 etc into oblivion.

I'm a see if patriot will rma the drive.
 
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