Re: How do you UnRAID a drive?

If the disk management only sees 125gb then it would appear you dont have
bigLba enabled in win*
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013&Product=winxp
or
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305098

"Martin Welch" <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:4sednSday6kYofbeRVnytQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Three months ago I purchased a single Samsung SpinPoint P120 SATA II drive
> and connected it to my then MSI KT4 Ultra board. However, I could only
> connect the drive to the ultra board's Promise RAID controller.
>
> I've now built a new box with an Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe (my old box just
> wouldn't run Quake IV fast enough). I've been able to connect the drive as
> a standard (non-RAID) drive and I can now access the drive from Windows.
>
> However, the setup has been unreliable. When I write to the drive the
> drive gets corrupted, forcing me to run chkdsk. Usually, the files I've
> just written are trashed.
>
> I've tried reformatting the drive but the disk manager thinks the drive is
> exactly half (125Gb) the actual capacity (250Gb) of the drive.
>
> So I think I need to remove the RAID information to turn the drive back
> into a 'normal' drive.
>
> I'm new to this SATA and RAID stuff so I'd appreciate any help.
>
> Martin


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