I was given a 3tb Seagate Barracuda drive.
When I plug it into an external bay I have, that uses USB2, Microsoft recognizes it as a 746Mb drive.
Asked the person who gave it to me, said he was running it in raid.

How the heck do I delete the raid configuration and get back the 3tb as a single drive?

This post was edited by ROM on Aug 19 2016 08:31am

Open disk management and delete the volume

disk management > format
or pop in a windows cd/usb and format it from the windows install point. sometimes i ended up doing that

This does not show 3tb. Windows recognizes only 746Mb.

Also worth mentioning, I used
diskpart
select disk 1
clean
in the command line, and still nothing.



There is no volume to format.

/edit
Also also worth mentioning, tried initializing to GPT and no change.

This post was edited by ROM on Aug 19 2016 08:39am

junk it then because diskpart should have worked

Damn. Was worried about that.

Too good to be true I guess.

BUY NEW HARD DRIVES!!

use gparted.