Can not initialize HDD due to cyclic redundancy check

maxinexus

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Hello,
I have a 500GB WD that I used in RAID 0. I canceled raid and formatted each drive(slow format).
So I took one HDD and wanted to use it in my office pc whose HDD died.
However, I cant install OS to it because every time I upload disk driver it shows unallocated space of over 931GB( remember it is a 500GB drive) but it say it just say you can not install windows to this drive.
So I plugged it to my gaming rig but I can not initialize the disk due to crc. (it shows that it is intel raid 0 931GB unallocated space). I am puzzled.

When I put the HDD back to the PC i formated it with everything works fine no errors on chkdsk.
I have no more energy left to fight this alone lol

Thank you for advice.
 
A cyclic redundancy check (CRC) is an error-detecting code commonly used in digital networks and storage devices to detect accidental changes to raw data. It possibly has something to do with your " canceled raid ".

I suggest you delete all partitions on the drive and let Windows create the partitions it needs automatically.
 

maxinexus

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I went back into raid utility and created and deleted the raid again. Then i low level formated the drives. And it worked.

Not sure why it did not worked the first time. I mean you dont have to format drives...anyway it works now.