I did not reformat them. I guess I should start there. I found one of the 250GB drives that worked, so I'm guessing it is probably an error along the lines of what Tim suggested. Once I'm done with the re-install, I'm going to get one of those cool SATA docks and go through and check and wipe all the drives just to make sure.
--------------------------- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation <http://www.secureworldfoundation.org> +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 12:12 PM, DSinc <[email protected]> wrote: > Brian, > Did you reformat (erase) these 250GB drives before you put them in storage? > > Or, do you mean you can not even get W7 to reformat these drives? > That would be a pisser! > > As they were p/o a raid array, W7 may be seeing some special formatting in > the initial sectors (by the raid controller) and by-passes the drive because > the rest of the "array" is missing. > Only thing I can think of. > > Recall talk before about different raid controllers doing different stuff > to drives and making them hard to move/re-use to/on other raid controllers. > Best, > Duncan > > > Brian Weeden wrote: > >> I've got several 250 GB Seagate drives that used to be in my HTPC RAID. >> They've been replaced by 1 TB drives so now I'm looking to use them >> elsewhere. >> >> I am trying to install Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit which I just purchased on >> one of those drives. The drive detects perfectly fine in BIOS, has no >> problems, but the Win 7 setup will not find it or show it as an option to >> install to. If I put another drive on that same exact connector/cable, it >> detects it. >> >> Is there something that the RAID adapter/software could have changed on >> the >> drive to cause this? When I migrated to the new RAID, I copied all the >> data >> from the old RAID to the new one which was running on a new controller. I >> then just disconnected all the old 250 GB drives and put them in storage. >> >> --------------------------- >> Brian Weeden >> Technical Advisor >> Secure World Foundation <http://www.secureworldfoundation.org> >> >> +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada >> +1 (202) 683-8534 US >> >>
