Removing an iSCSI Target - iSCSI initiator 2.0 on Windows Server 2003 R2

For the life of me I cannot figure out how to remove an iSCSI target (Dell Equallogic SAN) from a Windows Server 2003 box. The volume shows up in Windows as drive letter Y.

Using the iSCSI initiator, I can remove the Target Portal, but cannot remove the Target itself.

Can someone give me some guidance on this?

I've gone as far as setting the volume offline in the Dell SAN management tool, and even permanently deleted the volume. The Target no longer shows up in the iSCSI Initiator properties, but the drive letter is still there under My Computer. And now Windows is throwing delayed write errors for that drive.

There must be a proper way to successfully remove an attached Target.

Solution 1:

It is strongly recommended before you remove an iSCSI target, you should make the disk offline in Disk management and then disconnect the target in iSCSI initiator window. To make it disappear in iSCSI initiator, you should remove the portal and favorite list.