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I have about 500 GB of data on two 1TB drives running a mobo hardware RAID 1. I keep running into problems and have decided to back out of all of this and just use the drives like normal HDD's. I want to unpair the drives and have my computer have absolutely no clue that they were every part of a RAID 1 setup. How can I safely do this?
My current thought is to unplug one of the drives, boot up into my RAID bios utility, delete the array (which I am guessing will kill the drive that is currently plugged in), then plug the other drive in and have windows think it is a slave drive. Does this sound right? I have never tried to do this before.
Shadoninja
Posted 2017-01-21T20:42:19.880
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I would back everything up into another external drive first. I don't remember right know whether RAID 1 does some magic that prevents you from just taking one of the drives and using it as a standalone one, as you want, so just in case, I'd back it up first and then do it the way you say. – PaulJ – 2017-01-21T21:27:20.497
Is it RAID 0 or RAID 1? – user1686 – 2017-01-21T21:27:31.500
It is RAID 1. I will back everything up to a bus drive that I have laying around and delete the array. – Shadoninja – 2017-01-21T22:44:43.873