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nickwhi   10-31-2002 at 08:21:46 PM

I have two hard drives that have been NTFS formated when I connect them to my raid controller and try to create an array,set up says there are no available disks,even though the controller does see the disks.Anyone know whats up?Thanks Nick.

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unoc   10-31-2002 at 10:38:32 PM
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The controller sees the disks already partitioned and cannot build an array. Try fdisk, delete all partitions on the drives and try again. Then you can use fdisk to create a new partitions on the new big RAID volume.

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nickwhi   11-01-2002 at 09:55:47 PM
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Thanks for the reply unoc,should I use the fdisk program on my old 98 start up disk?If so will it see the ntfs file system?Thanks again Nick.

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unoc   11-02-2002 at 11:13:22 AM
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Yes, you may use fdisk from win98 boot disk. You should find not-DOS partitions and you must delete them together with other partitions.
If it doesn't work you need to delete the old partion by a low level format software which can be downloaded from the internet site of the hdd brand.

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