How do you wipe SATA drives ...... need help

[nismogt1]

Hello all,

I have a cpl of Maxtor 80 gig SATA drives in my system. These drives are striped. I am going to be getting a new m/b & CPU pretty soon & I wanted to wipe the drives clean & do a fresh install of XP.

I am used to wiping EIDE drives. That's no big deal. Any help would be greatly appreciated.


thanks in advance....... nismo

 

[boomerang]

When you hook the drives up to the new controller, you will have to create a new array. That, coupled with doing a format during the normal course of business installing XP will take care of anything you have on the drive.

 

[nismogt1]

Thanks very very much Boomerang.......!

I'm used to formatting EIDE drives the old fashioned way. ( dos type program on a floppy ) And this was/is my first experiance going RAID. It just dawned on me the other day that when I get the new m/b & cpu how could I wipe the system for a new install...?

Thanks for the knowledge............ it's greatly appreciated