Problems formatting hard drives which were previously in RAID 0
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Solved by roberto++,
If you can see the array within the RAID BIOS, you will be able to delete the existing volume and recreate each drive as independent drives, aka JBOD.
A slow method would be to use DBAN on each drive, single pass is enough.
I'm currently having problems with formatting my hard drives, that was previously in a RAID 0 setup. The RAID 0 hard drives was from an old pre-built system, and now I'm trying to transfer them to my new system as two separate hard drives.When I connected the hard drives into the new system, the controller found the RAID, but it was very buggy as the drives kept disconnecting, and generally not working. I tried using 'Diskpart' and, it detected the 1TB (500gbX2) and tried formatting it, realising it was just formatting the RAID, not separating them. I also went to the BIOS, and disabled RAID (Gigabyte G1 Sniper Z5S) but the computer wouldn't boot (Windows is on a separate SSD). With this, I tried plugging in one Hard drive at a time, but Windows couldn't detect anything so I couldn't 'Diskpart' and 'clean' it, however the BIOS did detect the single Hard drive plugged in.Is there a way/solution to format the Hard drives, and un-RAID them, making them back to two 'normal' hard drives?Thanks!Jeff
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