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    Raid 0 problems?

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by Pmode, Nov 6, 2010.

  1. Pmode

    Pmode Notebook Consultant

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    My laptop was configured at raid 0, working perfectly fine. but when i took out a hard drive, it wouldn't run. As of now, i dont' have that other drive. im trying to do a clean install but even after going into bios, and turning off the raid, going back to ahci. i finally come to the windows install screen, and it says there are no drives. tells me to load drives, but nothing loads. Cept in bios, it clearly shows that i have a 500gb drive. im at a totaly loss guys...
     
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  2. Corthalis

    Corthalis Notebook Geek

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    Obviously when you take out a hard drive from a raid 0 setup it will no longer work. If you're going for a clean install on the leftover drive you also need to re-enable raid in the BIOS instead of AHCI, go to the raid setup screen, and delete the raid array before you can switch back to AHCI and reinstall the OS.
     
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    how do i know if the raid array is deleted? When im in the install screen, it doesn't detect the harddrive and it says i have to format it.
     
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    If you haven't deleted the raid array, then it's not deleted. You have to manually delete the raid array before you can use that hard disk as a single drive on that same laptop.

    - Set HDD to RAID in BIOS.
    - Reboot. After the BIOS screen there'll be something that says "Press XXX to enter RAID configuration". Press the corresponding button. Find the option to delete RAID array.
    - Reboot. Set HDD to AHCI.
    - Reboot. HDD should be detected when you try to reinstall. And yes you'll have to format it.
     
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  5. reborn2003

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    Yep you have to destroy that RAID array lol.

    "Ctrl I" I believe was the buttons to use to get into the RAID config section when you reboot the notebook you should see an option show up.

    Cheers. :)
     
    reborn2003, Nov 6, 2010
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