PLEASE HELP!!!! Formatting RAID in W2K with NTFS

[rhump]

Please Help!!
I currently have two IBM 30GB HDs Raided in an Abit Hot Rod 100 Raid Card on an MSI K7T-Pro 2a. I now need one of those hardrives to use in another system(did not see any huge performance gains with RAID anyway). I am using Windows 2K and NTFS and I remember the last time I did this with one drive it was a huge pain to format. I don't remember how I did it. I have a copy of partition magic and I'm thinking of using PM to convert back to FAT 32 and then Fdisk from there, but I don't know how this will act with the two drives in RAID?? I also thought of removing the RAID card and hooking the drives to the onboard IDE channel and Fdisk and Format each one individually. Please, If anyone would care to explain the easiest way to do this I would greatly appreciate it. Thank You.

 

[RudeMood]

if you are trying to change the partition back, and not worrying about saving data, just FDISK with a windows bootup and delete the partition. it will show up as an unknown partition, but just delete it, and create a FAT32 partition. i THINK thats what youre asking, but im not sure... or are you trying to save the info you have on both drives and not sure what removing one will do to the setup? oh boy, maybe i didnt understand it at all 🙂

 

[John]

No worries. Win2K will partition and format during setup.

 

[rhump]

I don't want to save any data on either harddrive I just want two clean drives that I can install Win2K on one and Win98SE on the other. Will Windows 2K even let me format these drives? How will I get to the prompt to Fdisk?

 

[rhump]

any more info

 

[John]

You don't need to get to any "prompt". Change your boot sequence to CDROM first, then boot to the Win2K CDROM. During the setup procedure, you will have the option to create/delete partitions, then to format them.