raid-0'd hard drive failure...

[trapper700]

Last night, one of my two hitachi sata ii 80gb hds failed while they were in a raid-0 setup. My problem is that I disabled raid in the bios and disconnected the non working hard drive, but when i went to format and reinstall windows on the other hd, it still said that there were two partitions one with the 16gb i used for windows and the other 140gbs i used for storage. Even a reformat wouldn't work on the 140gb partition. I reformatted the 16gb partition and installed windows on it, but it's still being read as only 16gbs with 140gbs of unformatted space free.

How do i make it so that the 80gb sata hard drive is being read as an individual 80gb hd? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

 

[phantom404]

Did you try deleting the partition and then reboot and let windows cd load back up? Sometimes the master boot record will still see it as 160GB if the partitions were not deleted. I had that happen when I was playing around with my 2 hard drives.

 

[trapper700]

i did delete the partitions, but the windows cd still read them as two separate unpartitioned spaces of the same sizes (16gb and 140gb)

 

[phantom404]

Hmm the only thing i can think of is to make sure you disabled the right raid. My Motherboard has 2 sets of raids, one is nvidia, and the other one starts with an s. make sure the ones you disable dare the ones your drive is connected to. other then that I have no clue. Sounds like you tried everything.