Raid1 and how to format replacement drive

Hockeydad39 · May 5, 2016

I am having fits with my Raid one..again. I did a format as per AMD on a drive. It almost started the migration but when it hit the second mark on progress it PUKED big time.

This was due to an array failure or drive.
I would like to try and format the drives, I have two WD Blacks which are supposed top dog, they match what came with the system. I did a format with a 2.0 USB as it fought with the primary drive when I tried internally. I have USB 3.0 available. Is there a 3.0 USB to SATA transfer kit available to try?

noidea_77 · May 5, 2016

That doesn't work. Connect the drive to the controller, add the drive to the raid array in bios, that's it.

Hockeydad39 · May 9, 2016

noidea_77 :

I am wondering about a different approach. I created a rescue disk to boot from.
When I tried to re-format my "bad drive" all I got was BSOD.
My thought if I pull my primary drive out, boot with the rescue disk, re-install the bad HD , can I get to where I can re-format as an individual drive. Also do I need to change the bios from Raid to IDE or the other choice which escapes me now to be able to format this disk?

noidea_77 · May 9, 2016

Hockeydad39 :

You will have to delete all partitions on the disk first, to get rid of the RAID-MBR and change the bios to AHCI.

Hockeydad39 · May 9, 2016

noidea_77 :

Is my original premise correct above about securing my working drive , removing it from the mother board and connecting the bad drive and doing the format from a bootable disk I made?

Also how do you go about removing the partitions? I thought formatting the drive would do that?
And the bios change to AHCI should be done before connecting the bad drive back up?

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