Re: raid

[Jon Dowland <jmtd@debian.org>]

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.

Use a partition tool such as gparted or cfdisk to change the types of
the partitions to something else, then you could reformat them as LVM
physical volumes, or ext4 or another filesystem as you see fit.

If you are not using the HDDs for anything else yet at all, I'd suggest
just erasing the entire partition table and putting new ones on. Any of
the above partitioning tools could do that.