Unprotecting Protected Disk Partition

[mattofak]

Hey;

Ok; I had a RAID1 array going on my home server, but unfortunatly one of the drives died on me, yes, hiss and boo for not watching SMART status. Its fine though, most of my data was stored elsewhere as well. Now, I have a problem with the second drive, Windows reads its partition as a protected partition, which is irritating because it would be really nice if i could reformat the dern thing and use the drive again.

I'm simply wondering if any of you could give me an easy solution to de-protecting the drive/partition as a quick google, and MSFN search didnt yield any fruits.

[jaclaz]

Don't take it as a "proved solution" as it is not, but I would try using dban on it:

Darik's Boot and Nuke

http://dban.sourceforge.net/

jaclaz

Edited November 28, 2005 by jaclaz