May 29, 2011 #1 M Mati71 Limp Gawd Joined Jul 17, 2008 Messages 141 Hello, I want to reformat my C:\ drive (which is in Raid 0) but I also have 2 WD640 hard drives that I spanned into 1 volume (F:\). My question is, if I reformat my C:\ drive, will I be able to still read my spanned F:\ drive afterwords? Thanks.
Hello, I want to reformat my C:\ drive (which is in Raid 0) but I also have 2 WD640 hard drives that I spanned into 1 volume (F:\). My question is, if I reformat my C:\ drive, will I be able to still read my spanned F:\ drive afterwords? Thanks.
May 30, 2011 #2 D danswartz 2[H]4U Joined Feb 25, 2011 Messages 3,715 I'm confused. Why would reformatting one drive affect a different one?
May 30, 2011 #3 M Mati71 Limp Gawd Joined Jul 17, 2008 Messages 141 I just wanted to make sure that Windows 7 would still recognize the spanned drives after reformatting or if it is effected in anyway.
I just wanted to make sure that Windows 7 would still recognize the spanned drives after reformatting or if it is effected in anyway.
May 30, 2011 #4 R Ross1 n00b Joined Feb 26, 2010 Messages 25 Yes, it will recognise the spanned drive after reinstalling windows. ive done it before.
May 30, 2011 #5 M Mati71 Limp Gawd Joined Jul 17, 2008 Messages 141 Awesome. Thanks for the good news. I was afraid I would lose my data. Thanks!
May 30, 2011 #6 C cymon Limp Gawd Joined Apr 16, 2009 Messages 453 IIRC, RAID implementations typically store some information about the drive's role in an array in the last sector on disk, or something like that.
IIRC, RAID implementations typically store some information about the drive's role in an array in the last sector on disk, or something like that.