Article ID: 000090598 Content Type: Error Messages Last Reviewed: 05/06/2022

Unable to Delete a RAID Volume with the Intel® Optane™ Memory and Storage Management Application as a Disk Contains Data

Environment

Intel® Optane™ Memory and Storage Management

Windows 11, 64-bit*, Windows® 10, 64-bit*

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Summary

How to clear the data from drives to be able to delete a RAID volume with Intel® Rapid Storage Technology (Intel® RST)

Description

You try and delete a RAID volume from the Manage tab in the Intel® Optane™ Memory and Storage Management application and the following volume_0000: Delete Volume error is encountered:

The operation cannot be performed because one or more of the selected disk(s) contains data

Resolution

In the Intel® Optane™ Memory and Storage Management application, none of the disks that are part of a RAID volume that is selected to be deleted can contain any data.

Remaining data must be removed to continue:

  1. Press Windows* key+r keys to open Run Dialog.
  2. Type diskpart and press OK.
  3. Press Yes on the User Account Control prompt.
  4. Type list disk.. Notice the * beside the any disk you wish to select for the RAID volume in the GPT column.
  5. Select the disk to be uninitialized typing select disk <number>.
  6. Type clean.
  7. Type list disk. Notice the * is no longer there.
  8. Repeat for any additional disks.

Proceed to delete the RAID volume in the application.

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