Re: How to remove Microsoft soft raid?

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I usually boot from the installer CD and go to a virtual terminal (Alt-F1). In the shell;

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/disk-i-want-to-destroy bs=512 count=1

I'd guess that the partition table has some microsoft funkiness in it that needs to be wiped.

Take, care with this, it can and does eat data.......


Cheers.



On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 9:24 PM, David McGuffey <davidmcguffey@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Have a quad core workstation that was running WinXP_64 that I want to
blow away and install CentOS 6.  C6 install process finds raid metadata
associated with sda and sdb, and then excludes them from the rest of the
installation process.

There doesn't appear to be an option for disassembling the raid as part
of the install process.  I think there should be.

Any tricks to removing/by-passing the soft raid left over from the
previous OS?

Dave M


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