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Windows 10 says the flash drive has no errors. Oh it booted once right after I upgraded and no luck after that. (Rebooted again for the system couldn't find my last four drives)

Ok so I stopped the 4TB parity drive just right before it's going over to the next phase of writing zeros and the stuff. Stopped it at 99% of pre-reading and..... the parity is still valid! I'll just put it aside for now and start building a new parity using 5TB thinking my data will be safe and insured even if bad things ever happen to my array. Thanks again to all of you who contributed in this thread. Now I have to figure out how to use "New Config" so I can use my old parity as a data drive

Many thanks for all the replies it is very helpful. I see.. So once the preclear is started, it's previous signed status in invalidated.. Here is what I'm doing right now. I had a 4TB HDD as a parity drive and I want to upgrade it to 5TB. I bought 4 5TB HDDs and one of them will be used as parity since 5TB will be the largest size in my system. I'm doing the preclear process of all of them at once plus 4TB parity that is already in my system. So I can use 3 5TB HDDs and a 4TB HDD as data drives and a newly precleared 5TB HDD as a parity. As for how to preclear a parity drive, it is easy 1) Unassign it in the array and 2) just type the parity drive letter on the console along with the preclear command. I tried to use the parity drive as a data drive without preclearing it first but it didn't work. Maybe I should just format it then that would be it? I don't know. The worst case scenario would be after I precleared all of 5 HDDs and tried to rebuild the parity and while doing that, one of the data drive fails and that would be the end of my precious contents on that drive because I've already zero'd out my previous parity drive.

Hi all, I bought 4 5TB Toshiba HDDs recently and it's preclearing right now along with my 4TB parity drive. Right after I typed "Yes" and hit enter for the 4TB HDD to be precleared only then I realized that if one of my data drives fail, I will have no protection. So stupid of me I know Question is, it's still in pre-reading phase right now so.. can I cancel it and still be able to use the parity drive? What I'm doing right now is that I want to use a new Toshiba HDD for the parity. I'm using unRaid version 6.0.1 and preclear version 1.15.

Hi all, I bought 4 5TB Toshiba HDDs recently and it's preclearing right now along with my 4TB parity drive. Right after I typed "Yes" and hit enter for the 4TB HDD to be precleared only then I realized that if one of my data drives fail, I will have no protection. So stupid of me I know Question is, it's still in pre-reading phase right now so.. can I cancel it and still be able to use the parity drive? What I'm doing right now is that I want to use a new Toshiba HDD for the parity.