Obviously, this is too late for the OP, but for anyone who stumbles upon this question like I did, I have the answer. That answer is: wipe the drive with a linux utility. Nwipe, DBAN, DD, it doesn't really matter, as long as it can start from sector 0 on the drive. Even better is the hdparm command, especially for SSDs (but yes, it does work for spinning rust) as it's very fast because the controller on the HD does it. If the drive isn't recognized in Linux, then check whether it's recognized in your BIOS. Obviously, if BIOS can't see it, no OS is going to either. If BIOS does detect the drive, then make sure your kernel is new enough to handle whatever drive you're trying to throw in there (i.e. drivers). The only other caveat I can add is that if the BIOS recognizes it and you're sure you have the right drivers in the OS, you might have a SED (self-encrypting drive) in which case you'll need the master password to wipe it. If you don't have that, you're going to have to do research on your specific model of drive on how to get around that. I had this same problem, and in my case, the drive was in a USB enclosure, but pretty much everyone who has asked this question on the internet that I could find either had it in a RAID array (like the OP) or a USB enclosure.
The other common error message that accompanies the one OP had is, "virtual disk service Unexpected failure. Error code: 45D@02000018". The reason for all these errors is that RAID controllers and USB enclosure write some data to the very beginning (and sometimes very end) of a hard drive, PAST where Windows can access it (using the old C/H/S model, Windows usually doesn't start writing until Head 1, Sector 0, which means the first 64 sectors are out of bounds (you start counting at 0). The easiest thing to do is get a copy of Parted Magic and put it on a disk or USB and run Nwipe from it (do the 64 bit version for speed benefits) if you don't already have Linux on a box you can just put the drive in.
Afterwards, whatever your ultimate purpose is for the disk, do that; meaning, if you mean to attach it to a RAID controller, don't boot back into Windows and initialize it, put it straight into the RAID controller. Otherwise, you're going to have to go through this again. Hope this helps somebody out there.
Reference: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Solid_state_drive/Memory_cell_clearing
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Securely_wipe_disk
