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Question posted by ijjcanncel on May 29th, 2014

How To Format A Dell Poweredge T610 Tower Server Hard Drive

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Answer #1: Posted by TechSupport101 on May 29th, 2014 7:53 AM

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Hi. See the hubpage article here http://warithniallah.hubpages.com/hub/How-to-format-a-newly-installed-hard-drive-on-Windows-Server-2008-and-Windows-7

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Answer #2: Posted by JCatDell on May 29th, 2014 11:14 AM

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Hi,

If the drive is part of a RAID array and you want to clear the whole array you can go into the controller with ctrl+R and choose the option to initialize the array, a full initialization will clear the data.

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