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Our company has found the need to move from Window Sever Backup (WSB), and I would like to, for the lack of better words, reclaim the drives I was using for the backups. WSB has made these drives "dedicated" and now theses drives will not show up. I have checked to see if they are recognized by the bios, the drive’s manufacture utility software, Disk Management and even installed the drives into other machines. I'm at a loss, and I would appreciate some useful help.

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  • Have you deleted all the existing backups and catalogs? Have you also uninstalled WSB?
    – Rex
    Mar 7, 2014 at 22:17
  • Remove the drive as a backup location in WSB.
    – TheCleaner
    Mar 7, 2014 at 22:40
  • You'll have to forgive me...I'm use to Veritas. I'm not seeing any options to remove the drives as a backup location. After using more robust backup programs I'm feeling very limited on options here.
    – Andrew
    Mar 7, 2014 at 22:53
  • do they show up in diskpart ?
    – MikeAWood
    Mar 8, 2014 at 1:19
  • A slow way would be just zero-wipe the drives with dban, or your favorite tool.
    – Zoredache
    Mar 8, 2014 at 2:48

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Stop/Disable the backup in the WSB management console. This will "release" the drive back to the operating system.

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