dymelos Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 not sure if im doing something wrong as i have never run into this before. i have 2 force gt 180 drives that were in a raid 0 array. i upgraded to bigger ones and decided to make these my music and storage drives, only 1 of them is read by windows. if put the raid back together windows will detect the drive as an array but once they are uncombined for the array only 1 of them usable. the drive is seeable in bios but not by windows. any ideas? im using the rampage iv extreme mobo and its plugged in the sata 2 plugs since my new drives now occupy my sata 3 plugs. any help would be greatly appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toasted Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 Is it detected in Device Manager and Disk Management? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synthohol Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 one of them has the MBR on it from the raid. if you get a win98 or ME boot disk you can unplug all drives except the one in question and at the command prompt type " fdisk /MBR and it will release the record and allow you to partition and format. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dymelos Posted February 28, 2013 Author Share Posted February 28, 2013 Yea the drive is detected in the bios, samsungs drive software, and Intels. I don't have a boot disk sadly. Does corsair have any drive software? Any other recommendations? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toasted Posted February 28, 2013 Share Posted February 28, 2013 Is there any important data on the drives? If not, you can try secure erasing the drive with Parted magic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synthohol Posted February 28, 2013 Share Posted February 28, 2013 bootdisk.com has images for free Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dymelos Posted March 1, 2013 Author Share Posted March 1, 2013 nothing important on the drive but i dont have a floppy drive to do the boot disk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synthohol Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 USB boot, floppies are dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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