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iieeann · 10-04-2007, 06:34 PM

All right, Adaptec says no way, single hardisk must be initialized before able to use by 31205, and doing that will destroy all data on the hardisk.

Hardisk that has been initialized and configured as simple volumn will be able to work as single drive. Even after that dismantle the drive and install on other SATA controller, it will work normally; and later install back to 31205 will have no problem too. This sounds like 31205 has written something onto the drive during initialization.

10-04-2007, 06:34 PM	#2 (permalink)
iieeann Registered User Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 6 OS: WinXP	Re: How to install single drive with data onto Adaptec 31205? All right, Adaptec says no way, single hardisk must be initialized before able to use by 31205, and doing that will destroy all data on the hardisk. Hardisk that has been initialized and configured as simple volumn will be able to work as single drive. Even after that dismantle the drive and install on other SATA controller, it will work normally; and later install back to 31205 will have no problem too. This sounds like 31205 has written something onto the drive during initialization. __________________ CPU = AMD FX55, 2x 1Gb RAM on DFI LP UT NF4-SLi DR Expert VGA = X1900XTX Hdd = 2x Raptor 74Gb (onboard), Seagate 320Gb Addon = Adaptec 31205, Creative X-Fi, Gigabyte i-RAM 3Gb