Old raid configured drives to individual on new motherboard

[ProMcTagonist]

Good day,

I have just finished building my first from scratch PC, for which I have canibalised a few parts from an old machine.

It all works fine (hurray!) except for recognition of my second hard drive.

I used two 500gb hard drives that were previously configured for RAID on the old machine, but RAID is not supported on the new motherboard; an ASUS H110M-K. I had no idea that it was possible to get a motherboard without raid, so I didn't even check 🙁. What I now have is a drive that is not seen by Windows (7 pro) and what can probably be described as a ghost of the old raid set-up.

I would try to upload a screenshot of the Computer Management screen here but I don't seem to be able to.

What I have is:
Disk 0 - 931.52gb, offline
Disk 1 - 465.64gb, online

As near as I can figure, Windows reformatted one of the drives on installation, but ignored the other...

Is this fixable? ..and if so, how would I go about it?

 

[James Mason]

DO you still want them to be raided?

If the other computer still "works" the simplest fix is to put the old hard drives back in and go into the raid utility and tell it to unraid the drive.

If you just want to use the drive as a normal drive again, you may be able to format it from within windows, just right click the drive in disk management and format it as a normal drive.

 

[ProMcTagonist]

Sadly, the old computer lost it's motherboard in a BIOS upgrade failure... I am happy to stick with separate drives; it will probably makes things easier down the road if I decide to replace one with something bigger and faster.

I can't seem to find a format option? Right clicking gives the following options:
Initialise Disk - this gives a failure 'data error (cyclic redundancy check)'
Offline
Properties
Help

The disk does appear in my BIOS,, but it does not show in 'My computer's hard disk drive field.

Oh, as a caveat, it's a really recent install, so I really don't mind having to wipe everything, reformat both drives or whatever! No data to lose just yet!