initializing virtual disks

I have a powervault MD1000 (Bay raid storage) connected to a backup server. It is set up with 3 virtual drives that each use 2 terabytes of storage in RAID 5 from our range of 8 physical disks.

I had to replace two of the physical drives, and I need to initialize my virtual disks. In the Perc 6/E management screen VD, I can select the virtual disks (that show in red) and press F2 to display the operations, but the initialization button is dimmed and I can't select it. In the PD management screen, the new drives show as ready.

How do I initialize my virtual drives? Should I delete them and create new virtual disks? It's my first time doing this, so please bear with me. Any help would be appreciated.

I just updated the firmware of the 6th Perc to version 6.3.3 - 0002, which has a rep to support Dell recommended that I do, if this is useful.

After you remove virtual drives, I was able to create a new virtual disk and initialize it. It seems that I just have to build the virtual disks from scratch.

Thank you for your time.

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