Removing a RAID Array from an ASUS/WD environment

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I would imagine this is NOT the right newsgroup to post this, but I didn't
know where else to turn. I have a home-built PC as follows:

ASUS P4C800-E motherboard
2GB RAM
4x250GB Western Digital SATA drives
etc.

When I originally built the system, I set it up with the 3rd and 4th drives
in a Mirrored RAID Array (they appear as a single Drive G:).

I would like to remove this RAID array and return the two physical drives
back to two (separate) logical drives.

I've gone into the BIOS and can't seem to find where/how to remove this RAID
array.

Can anyone help, or at least point me to another newsgroup where this could
be answered?

Thanks in advance,
John
 
John said:
I would imagine this is NOT the right newsgroup to post this, but I didn't
know where else to turn. I have a home-built PC as follows:

ASUS P4C800-E motherboard
2GB RAM
4x250GB Western Digital SATA drives
etc.

When I originally built the system, I set it up with the 3rd and 4th drives
in a Mirrored RAID Array (they appear as a single Drive G:).

I would like to remove this RAID array and return the two physical drives
back to two (separate) logical drives.

I've gone into the BIOS and can't seem to find where/how to remove this RAID
array.

Can anyone help, or at least point me to another newsgroup where this could
be answered?

Thanks in advance,
John
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Pressing Control-I in the BIOS, takes you to the Intel RAID setup screen.
Pressing Control-F in the BIOS, takes you to the Promise RAID setup screen.

Intel connectors are labeled "SATA1" and "SATA2"
Promise connectors are labeled "SATA_RAID1" and "SATA_RAID2"

Downloadable manuals come from:

http://support.asus.com.tw/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us --->

http://dlsvr03.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/sock478/P4C800E-DX/e1347b_p4c800-e_deluxe.pdf

The fun part, will be what to do about drivers :-)

HTH,
Paul
 
For intel,if youre running a true "RAID" set,enter the post-BIOS RAID
utility,
select:"Return to non-RAID" set & close.As for promise,who knows,however
simply enough diconnecting 1 of the hds will/should delete the set.As for
drivers,
if the set is deleted,so is the OS,why worry about drivers.Also,"set up the
system
with 3 & 4" how/why did you ever set up an OS on G drive,if thats correct you
made some major mistakes in that installation...
 
Paul said:
Pressing Control-I in the BIOS, takes you to the Intel RAID setup screen.
Pressing Control-F in the BIOS, takes you to the Promise RAID setup screen.

Intel connectors are labeled "SATA1" and "SATA2"
Promise connectors are labeled "SATA_RAID1" and "SATA_RAID2"

Downloadable manuals come from:

http://support.asus.com.tw/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us --->

http://dlsvr03.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/sock478/P4C800E-DX/e1347b_p4c800-e_deluxe.pdf


The fun part, will be what to do about drivers :-)

HTH,
Paul
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If it were me, I would break the mirrors so they are separate and keep
their data, and then configure one as jbod. this way you should not
lose data. the jbod drive will probably need to be formatted.
 
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