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    Hard drive problems, not showing in my computer, unable to initialize disc.

    Discussion in 'MSI' started by milestone85, Mar 4, 2012.

  1. milestone85

    milestone85 Newbie

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    So I have a new GT780DXR which runs 2 500gb sata drives in RAID0....

    SO I pulled a hard drive out, installed a new ssd, formatted the 500gb hdd which remains (well i deleted partitions and formatted when it prompted me to install windows), and installed windows on the SSD.

    My problem now is that the 500gb drive is not showing in my computer.
    Although, it shows in Disc Management when u right click my computer/manage etc. But it shows it as 931.52GB or whatnot, whatever it was when I had RAID, its still showing it as 1tb basically....
    I try to initialize disc first, and it says "the file or path cannot be specified", and fails..... ... What else can I do? I was thinking of installing windows on solely the 500gb in another computer than trying to format it again using this computer under disc management, to see if that works.

    I don't know what else to try.

    Any help is greatly appreciated.
     
    milestone85, Mar 4, 2012
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  2. Support.4@XOTIC PC

    Support.4@XOTIC PC Company Representative

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    It sounds to me, like you need to go into your bios and turn your RAID settings off.
     
    Support.4@XOTIC PC, Mar 7, 2012
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    dave-p Notebook Deity

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    you may have to go into the Raid menu during boot up and delete the raid array
     
    dave-p, Mar 7, 2012
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  4. milestone85

    milestone85 Newbie

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    Thats what it was, before I did that I went to bios and changed something when I should have just booted and then it prompts me to un-raid the drives.
     
    milestone85, Mar 19, 2012
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