AHCI to RAID help

I made a mistake of not reading the Fresh Windows Install guide which stated us to set SATA mode to RAID - no matter what, before reinstalling my windows.

I used to have 2 x 750GB drives in RAID0 with a 80GB SSD cache, but I have upgraded one of the drives to an SSD.

I now want to use the cache on the single 750GB drive I still have in the laptop.

Ive tried the regedit tweaks, the regedit forceboot tweaks and even the msconfig safeboot option none of them have worked.

can anyone shed some light please?

 

Hey man

You can try the tweaks in the url below:
http://tecnicambalandia.blogspot.ae/2010/10/enable-intel-ich-raid-after-installing.html

There is a tool called Raidfix which is supposed to help with this as well.

However, if you don't mind me giving you some advice, why don't you use the 80GB mSata drive as an OS drive? It should be enough. Your new SSD can be used then for your apps, games... and the 750GB for storage.
Just to let you know, I was in your exact same shoes a couple months ago and was using the 80GB msata to cache my 1TB storage drive. I have now replaced it with a 250GB mSata and I can honestly tell you that I can't feel any difference whatsoever upon loading a few games I had installed on the storage drive. So I am not really sure how much caching will help for a storage drive. Maybe if I was using it as an OS drive it would be different. But it wasn't the case for me and I assume for you as well.

 

Thanks Nick!

I dont want to reinstall windows again.. its taken me a full day to configure everything the way i want it, installed drivers, apps, etc.. I think i'll follow your advice.