Hard drives not in raid anymore
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I had two drives set in a software raid configuration. i updated my bios and now the drives are not in raid anymore. I have decieded not to rebuild the raid array since I really wasn't getting much of a performance boost from it and don't really need the data security. The two drives are now C: and E:. Can I keep the C: drive as my main hard drive and just delete the information off of the E: drive and use E: as internal storage? If so, how would I go about this?
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r_manic said:
Errrrr... shouldn't the answer to that be obvious to you? Yes! But you'll have to reformat both disks, since formerly-RAID drives aren't readable just like that.I was trying to find a way around reformating both disks because I don't want to have to reinstall windows and update everything again.
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Can I keep the C: drive as my main hard drive and just delete the information off of the E: drive and use E: as internal storage? If so, how would I go about this?Since you're already using the two drives separately and using one of the two (C:\) as boot drive already, then just format E:\ and you're done.
wuzy said:
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Can I keep the C: drive as my main hard drive and just delete the information off of the E: drive and use E: as internal storage? If so, how would I go about this?Since you're already using the two drives separately and using one of the two (C:\) as boot drive already, then just format E:\ and you're done.
Just did it and it worked fine. Now I have E:\ set up as extra space and I am running windows of of C:\. Thanks for the help.
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