Unstriping Hard Drives

[EnderXander]

So a while back I had a couple old hard drives that I put into my new PC build just for some extra bulk storage (games mainly), but recently upgraded to a larger nvme for that stuff. 

I put those drives into a striped volume (RAID) through windows disk management to try and improve their speed a little bit since I wasn't worried about losing the data. But since I don't need them together anymore I've been trying to figure out how to separate them into their individual drives. 

As it is this is how it sees the drives (1TB each, but now viewed as one drive), and I cannot separate them. 

Anyone able to help me with this so they can be used individually? I've tried only having one plugged in, formatting, etc. but it only ever stays in this form

[Electronics Wizardy]

Did you stripe them in the bios? If so you need to unstripe them in the bios.

[EnderXander]

6 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Did you stripe them in the bios? If so you need to unstripe them in the bios.

No, I only used the disk management utility in windows. 

[Electronics Wizardy]

3 hours ago, EnderXander said:

No, I only used the disk management utility in windows. 

Can you show what get-physicaldisk in powershell shows?

 

window disk managemen rai shows it as 2 disks, never 1

[EnderXander]

35 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Can you show what get-physicaldisk in powershell shows?

 

window disk managemen rai shows it as 2 disks, never 1

The drives in question are listed here. They are separate and show it as such in every area I can think to look (bios, device manager, etc.). However "disk" in powershell views them together as well. 

Also I didn't actually use raid from what I recall, but a striped volume. 

[Electronics Wizardy]

5 minutes ago, EnderXander said:

The drives in question are listed here. They are separate and show it as such in every area I can think to look (bios, device manager, etc.). However "disk" in powershell views them together as well. 

Also I didn't actually use raid from what I recall, but a striped volume. 

did you use storage spaces? Check the storage spaces config in windows.

[EnderXander]

41 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

did you use storage spaces? Check the storage spaces config in windows.

I hadn't ever come across that! I was able to remove each drive from the pool, and delete the shared space and can reformat them individually now I think. Thanks so much!