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I've used Disk Management in Windows many many times to partition and format my slave drives, and I've never had any trouble at all.
Just recently, I decided to set my drives up in a RAID config, so I temporarily moved all of my data to my two 80Gb drives (which had been partitioned through Disk Management). I then set up the RAID on my three 250Gb drives and installed Windows. I then created several partions on the 250s and moved all my data from the 80s to those partitions (Windows had no trouble accessing the data).
A short while later, I decided I wanted to get rid of the RAID and go back to how I had had my computer originally, so I moved the data back to the 80s, blanked all my 250s, removed the RAID, and restored Windows from an image. Again, Windows had no trouble accessing the data, and yet the drives had been blanked, partitioned and formatted five times each. (And when I say "partitioned", I mean partitioned - I have 10 partitions spread across my five drives.)
I have also used my computer to partition and format many drives for use as slaves in other computers, and I have had no trouble at all. The only time I have come across the problem you describe (drive being seen as unusable) is when the hard drive in question is faulty. So, is there some other factor to take into account here, or what?
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