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Initializing Logical Drive

The Initiali o

function w saved in a Logical Dr

ze writes 0s into the entire area of a Logical Drive t

hen you want to erase the data

erase the data saved in the Logical Drive. Use the

ive fully.

Initialization has two modes listed in the table below.

Mode Description

F ll u Writes 0s into the entire area of a Logical Drive to erase the data fully.

Quick Writes 0s into some blocks in a Logical Drive. Only erases OS installation and partition

management information. Initialization of the mode is completed earlier than that of the full

mode. However, because 0s are not written into the remaining area, data consistency is not

held in the Logical Drive.

Initialize are available only in the Advanced Mode.

The Consistency Check of a Logical Drive initialized in the quick mode causes a data

inconsistency error to occur due to no data consistency.

The Logical Drive containing the partition cannot be initialized.

Executing Initialization

Initialization should be executed in Logical Drives. The procedure of executing Initialize is described below.

RAID Viewer

Use [Initialize] in [Control] menu.

Step 1

Start the RAID Viewer. Click a Logical Drive on

the Tree View. Select [Initialize] on the pull-down menu of

menu item [Control] and click [Full] or [Quick].

Step 2 After Initialize is started, the progress of

the Initialize appears on the Operation View.

At the completion of the Initialize, [Status] on the

Operation View is changed to [Completed].

raidcmd

Use "init" command.

Initialization cannot be executed for any Logical Drive with [Status] being [Online].

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