November 20, 20232 yr Noob here, just been dipping my toe into Unraid lately. I have no data of value in my Unraid box to be backed up and I'd just like to start the process over -- it's more hobby than anything else at this point. For what it's worth, I'm currently using the Unraid free trial license but anticipate purchasing a real license in the upcoming Black Friday sale. Yeah, I'm cheap . . . (If I'm correct, in a more common scenario one can take the Unraid USB flash drive and hard drives and put them all into a different box and Unraid will recognize the hard drives and slickly make the transition easy. In my case, I'd like to do just the opposite, which is to leave everything in place in the original box, but somehow start over, with Unraid 'discovering' the hard drives, getting them set up, etc.) There must be an easy way to sort of zero out Unraid i.e. make it forget the drives and just start over, no? I have one 3TB data drive and an identical parity drive. No cache drive at this point. Starting very simple. I suspect that there is an absurdly easy way to do this . . . thanks for your patience with us noobs.
November 20, 20232 yr Author 1 hour ago, JorgeB said: Do you want to reset the data or only the assignments? Everything shy of the initial setting up (burning) of the Unraid USB flash drive.
November 20, 20232 yr Community Expert Solution Create a new flash drive (or just do a new config if you wan to keep the other settings) and after assigning the disks and before starting the array click on each data disk and then "erase".
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