On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 04:19:08PM +0200, steef wrote: > hi all, > > my youngest son gave me two hd's (1 terab. each) included a > raid-array on ech hd 500 GB; *made by windows7* > > how do i get rid of this array? mdadm tells me nothing up till now.
No, it won't. As far as I know, mdadm will only work with Linux's software RAID implementation. > > how to handle this? > > thanks for all the help i can get here. i put the 2 hd's in a > machine loaded with sid on a third hd. If you don't need the RAID array, just treat the disks as blank. That is, put a new partition table on them and mkfs them. Windows 7's RAID won't have put anything permanent on the disks.
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