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Can I fix an ex-RAID drive designation?
I had a RAID 1 configuration but it went belly up after this past Tuesday's Microsoft patches. Fortunately the primary drive was OK and I was able to change from RAID to IDE in the BIOS. But now, the primary and slave RAID drives still have their "Volume 000" when I first boot and in the BIOS (I have an Intel Motherboard) both drives are shown as "00.2" rather than the hard drive capacity (e.g. 1TB).
Is there anything I can do, short of a low level format and complete reinstall of Win 7 (on the one drive?) for these two ex-RAID drives. I have reformatted the second (shadow) raid drive and it's completely empty.
I'm not going to use RAID, I've had several problems since going to it, and I have Acronis True Image that I use for complete hard drive backups so it's not a major problem to rebuild if needed (except this time since the "before RAID" backup is several months old.