Recently I purchased a dozen WD 2TB hard Drives from a US govt. surplus lottery, ten 2TB RE4 HDDs and two 2TB SAS HDDs. Drives are all less than three years old and were wiped prior to sale. I attempted to install each of them on a Dell 690 WS server (and a 490) however they don't appear in the OS Disk Manager window (Win XP). I tried various methods including using the on-board Dell Raid controller and the SAS controller Raid and nonRaid. Each try, the drives appear in the system Bios Screen (F2 on Dell) without an associated size, but do not appear in the OS Disk Manage window
I'm assuming the drives are set to RAID or signed as RAID, or whatever RAID, but I cannot reset them to Non-Raid for the OS. Two emails to WD have been unanswered. Any help would be sincerely appreciated, I went way overboard bidding on this lottery and really need to use these drives.
I'm assuming the drives are set to RAID or signed as RAID, or whatever RAID, but I cannot reset them to Non-Raid for the OS. Two emails to WD have been unanswered. Any help would be sincerely appreciated, I went way overboard bidding on this lottery and really need to use these drives.