Help with Formating previously used FreeNas Drive.

[Rob James]

Hi everyone, I'm stumped here and looking to be pointed in the right direction. I've recently upgraded the drives being used for storage in my freenas setup. The previously used drives I'm wanting to format and use to install windows 7 in a stand alone pc for my daughter. The problem is, that with the FreeNAS Data Disk installed into the pc I'm unable to boot from cd to enter Windows Installation. I've verified my boot order which is set to Boot from CDRom first. I do not receive the "boot from cd press any key to continue" option and I simply receive an error that states "This is a NAS data disk and can not boot system. System halted."
I'm sure someone out there has had this issue, or has seen/followed a threat regarding this, so ANY direction would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

 

[solarisguy]

Your problem is with booting. Maybe the DVD or CD you are using is faulty or the optical drive is broken.

If the disks are not larger than 2.2TB, you may want to connect the hard drives (for example one by one) to some Windows system either internally using SATA or externally using USB. And then from within Windows remove GPT partition table and install MBR on them.