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Use of "spare" drive to check after a validation.

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Just want to be sure - after validation

I have a "spare" drive whcih was part of a RAID1 mirror - I no longer have an active RAID mirror running and do not want one.  

If I "recover" my verified .tib  to that drive -does it get rid of that old mirror with no intervention on my part - or should i

use  "drivecleanser" first ?

 

Thanks -- Hank

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HankP,

If you no longer have an active RAID (you broke the RAID and all is on one drive now), you can format the second drive however you see fit and use it as storage.  If you do a full disk recovery to this drive, it should automatically format it and recover the backup exactly as the source drive is/was when the backup was taken.  If you only do a file/folder recovery, it will not format the drive.  

Drive cleanser should work just fine.  Personally, I'd probably just format the drive in Windows  via control panel >>> administrative tools >>> computer management >>>> disk management.   You typically just need to right click the drive and select "format" and can usually do a "quick format" to make the process go much faster (although it won't actually overwrite data on the drive, but it will set it as if nothing is on the drive which is all you need to do unless you're handing the drive over to someone else - then you'd want to do a full format). 

A word of advice - if you are doing a full disk recovery of your OS drive to the second drive, you probably don't want them both connected when you boot teh system up.  The bios will seem them as the exact same drive and can get confused and cause boot issues that can permanently make either drived non-bootable (well, not permanently, Windows Repair can usually fix that, but it's more trouble than it's worth).  If you want to validate the recovery, restore to teh 2nd drive, power down completely, unplug the original drive and swap it with the newly restored drive.  Then boot with just that drive and make sure it works. If it does, then you can just keep using it and swap the drives each time you validate, or return to the original and repeat the process when you feel the need to do it again.