Raid-1 drive pull out to transfer and reformat

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RAID-1 DRIVE PULL OUT TO TRANSFER ...


I have a pair of mirrored RAID-1 drives (these have been removed and sitting as is for about 6months or so)

There is no important data on this that im concerned about preserving.

What i want to do is reformat them into 2 separate single storage HDD'safter installing them into my new system ... is this possible? ... or will it mess up my new system?
 

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Windows 7 Ultimate x64
sure, you can connect and format them. Make sure the bios is booting from the right disk (your own, not one of them) though or if they had a system installed it could boot from one of them.

You can also connect them when the PC is already running, a feature called hot-swap, by connecting first the data cable and then the power cable to the disk, and waiting a minute or so for it to get recognized. And maybe repeat that a few times if it doesn't at the first time.
 

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bobafetthotmail said:
sure, you can connect and format them. Make sure the bios is booting from the right disk (your own, not one of them) though or if they had a system installed it could boot from one of them.

You can also connect them when the PC is already running, a feature called hot-swap, by connecting first the data cable and then the power cable to the disk, and waiting a minute or so for it to get recognized. And maybe repeat that a few times if it doesn't at the first time.
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Thanks
 

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Windows 7 Ultimate x64
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