Complete Hard Drive Wipe, RAID

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matius

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I've been trying to reverse RAID-0 without any luck. I want each of my two drives at full capacity. I intend on backing up to disc a couple times a week...my goal is to get a new system in a years time.

I don't care about the information on these drives, it can all go away. I know of some free programs that completely wipe the drives clean...

The hope is that this will get rid of everything including the RAID software, and then all I have to do is go back in and install XP...then see my two full drives available.

Can you give me any tips/pitfalls, never done this before. Is there anything I need to do to prepare once they're clean...

Thanks!
 
If you want to reverse your RAID 0, you need to go into the BIOS and delete your current config. The install the Win XP disk in the drive and follow the instructions. But do a complete install instead of a repair. This will wipe all drives and then you can configure the drives the way you want. Hope this helps!
 
Odds are you'll be doing it from a RAID Management interface of some sort which fires up after the machine finishes POSTing (CTRL+F something like that IIRC) :) What RAID controller do you have?
 
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