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    How do I use mSATA 64GB as a storage device

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by J R Knutson, Dec 11, 2016.

  1. J R Knutson

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    I recently replaced the 750GB HD with a Samsung EVO850 1TB SSD. There seems to be no point in using the 64GB mSATA device in RAID0. If it is possible I'd like to use this as a OS recovery device. If that is possible what BIOS changes do I need to make in order for that device to show up as a bootable storage drive.
     
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    MickyD1234 Notebook Prophet

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    Hi, struggling to remember but AFAIK you go into IRST (or the bios hot-key Ctrl-K, for drive config) and change the 64 SSD to a standard, non-raid drive (or something similar to that!). Then you will see the drive in Disk Manager and you can format it and assign a drive letter.

    If that is what you need?

    Good luck
     
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    rjtnag Notebook Evangelist

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    iirc you need to open the intel rapid storage technology program and unpair it from whichever drive you were using it to boost. unpairing it will i think cause the ssd/msata to lose all data and be available for use(might need to format) after a restart
     
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