1 ssd + 1 hdd = i dont know

Hey guys, im having a bit of an issue that i know you guys could probably answer in your sleep. well i bought a m17x r4 and it came with 2 500gb hdd in raid 0. so i wanted a ssd for the os and a few games so i bought a samsung 128gb ssd. i got it all installed and everytihng left one of the hdd in the secondary drive space, but when i look in my computer it only shows one drive. i know the drive is connected because i looked in the intel rapid storage utility thing and i even formatted it. so what do i do? how do i get it so that i can choose which drive i want to install things on? thanks for any help.

 

You probably forgot to reset the HDD's to "NON-RAID," correct? The one HDD is probably still a member of a RAID configuration and isn't recognized as a single drive. When the computer boots up, you'll see the Intel RST screen showing the drives. Hit "CTRL + I" to enter it and try to see if you can reset the HDD to NON-RAID.

Hope that works.

 

i did that when i first installed the ssd. on boot up it shows them as having no raid setup.

 

When you turn on the computer, you have to go into the Intel tool thingie. CTRL+I I believe it is, it's right after you see the bios boot screen.

Here you first have to disable raid, now your system tries to raid0 your ssd with your hdd, and that's going to cause all kind of problems (drive not showing, or showing and disappearing, you can even get as far as installing windows and thinking all is allright, but get crap performance and all kinds of crazy stuff going on in windows).

I should know, did the same upgrade a week ago, with the same problem you have now, wondering is going on ^^

 

Go into disk manager - it probably does not have an active partition. Right click on the drive for options.

 

thanks bro. worked like a charm

 

Sweet! Nice easy one