I have 2 500 Gb hard drives that were configured in a raid array, I switched to SSD's and tried to use a drive in a win 8 computer.  The drive will not format, I tried to share the drive but the computer will not let me do that because it can not read the drive. 
Any work way to format this drive?
Carl2

Have a look in the windows 8 built in Disk Manager, you should be able to see any problems and or format the drive from there.

Here is a link of how to get to Disk Manager:
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windows-8/a/disk-management-windows-8.htm

Big Thank you again.  Only took a few minutes once I found it. Formatted it and wrote on it.
Carl2

was about to sugest another suggestion if that did not work, Glad to hear you got it working 

 I just ran into this problem again, I have one of the 500 Gb drives not used and formatted that I put into the computer and it did not show up in Explorer, I tried formatting it in computer management, it came out as a master boot and  still did not show up in Explorer.  I just tried computer management again, I made a simple volume and this time assigned a drive letter to it labeling it storage.  It is now visible and available for storage.
Carl2