Help! Reinstalling windows onto an ex-raided drive,

Hey guys,

So I got given a WD 150gb HDD

It was being used in a raid 1, the guy that gave it to me was upgrading, so he basicly - Shut down his PC, pulled the drive out, and gave it to me.

I take it home, plug it in.
Boot off Window's 7 Pro,
Install,
Custom install.
See the drive (the WD 105gb)
Hit Delete,
Hit New, (making the drive - 150gb) Now Says "Disk 0 Partition 1"

Hit Next

Error!!

"Setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition. See the Setup log files for more information"

So, I boot unbuntu 10.10,
Open Disk Utility,
Format,
Master Boot Record,

Done,
Shutdown,

Get back to the Windows 7 Install, Custom,

Same Error!
"Setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition. See the Setup log files for more information"

Help! How do I comepletely wipe the HDD? Is the previous raid setting causing this drama?

Im stuck! Ideas!? Please Help!?

After a reformat and MBR rebuild, I doubt that the RAID data is still on it. You could always download and boot the Parted Magic toolkit and do a Secure Erase, which tells the drive to completely reset itself.

You could download the diagnostics from WD and test the drive; it may simply be defective.

It is remotely possible that the problem is in other hardware. Have you ever had that particular machine run with Win7 on some other disk?

Hey guys, problem solved.

I used the program Dban, took 3 hours to do its thing.. But it worked.

Now Win 7 is installed and running great on the wd velociraptor!

Thanks for the reply's guys!