RAID 0 help

[CushBeast]

I put 2 2TB WD black drive in a RAID 0 array using windows. Then one of the drives failed. Now that im just trying to use the one drive for now that is still good its still showing in windows as a 4TB drive and refuses to initialize. The MOBO still sees it as a 2TB drive, so how do I clean this off of there to make it usable?

[TubsAlwaysWins]

15 minutes ago, CushBeast said:

I put 2 2TB WD black drive in a RAID 0 array using windows. Then one of the drives failed. Now that im just trying to use the one drive for now that is still good its still showing in windows as a 4TB drive and refuses to initialize. The MOBO still sees it as a 2TB drive, so how do I clean this off of there to make it usable?

You will need to go into whatever you set the RAID up in and convert the disk to a non raid disk. 

[StDragon]

16 minutes ago, CushBeast said:

I put 2 2TB WD black drive in a RAID 0 array using windows. Then one of the drives failed. Now that im just trying to use the one drive for now that is still good its still showing in windows as a 4TB drive and refuses to initialize. The MOBO still sees it as a 2TB drive, so how do I clean this off of there to make it usable?

Use the DISKPART command 
 

DISKPART

LIST DISK

SELECT DISK X (x being whatever driver number you want to clear data from)

LIST DISK (to validate the correct drive has been selected)

CLEAN

 

[CushBeast]

TLDR to fix this I had to disable SMART on my asus maximus hero VIII to be able to post with the bad drive still in then go back to windows loot pool with the two drives still plugged in and just hit remove 35 times. with the bad drive not plugged in it wouldnt let me change anything it wouldn't let me access anything. i am going to try and reset the RAID array using the MOBO this time ctrl+I on start up lets you set up a RAID array that way because now the drive is perfectly healthy.

[CushBeast]

1 minute ago, StDragon said:

Use the DISKPART command 
 

DISKPART

LIST DISK

SELECT DISK X (x being whatever driver number you want to clear data from)

LIST DISK (to validate the correct drive has been selected)

CLEAN

 

before i figured it out, whether i used disk manager or diskpart it kept telling me you have selected a device that does not exist. even though it was only the one 2TB drive it was still showing as 4TB

[CushBeast]

I dont think the storage pool bs in windows is a good way to go about RAID that was horrible

[StDragon]

1 minute ago, CushBeast said:

before i figured it out, whether i used disk manager or diskpart it kept telling me you have selected a device that does not exist. even though it was only the one 2TB drive it was still showing as 4TB

I wasn't sure if you used Windows to create a RAID0 volume via Dynamic Disk, or you used the MB fake raid.

In your case, yes, you would have to disable or re-setup a new RAID0 volume. Once a drive crashes in RAID0, you lose all data, so no point in keeping the other member around at that point.