Raid and boot settings

Hello,

I tried to install Ubuntu alongside Windows 7 on my Alienware 17(Mid 2013). While trying this I messed up with boot, bios and raid settings. I've backup up everything and I have factory restore dvd's.

I've reset my bios to optimal settings.
I've restored my windows.
But i could not reset my raid setting. Or i don't even know was there a raid setting ?
Now windows is very slow.

I have sata 1tb and 80gb mSATA on my Alienware 17.

Here is my screenshot of raid settings.
http://i.imgur.com/Jm93hz4.jpg

How should it be? or is there a way to restore everything(bios, raid, hdd's)

 

You just need to turn on the caching (it uses a raid array). Select acceleration options and you should be able to assign the SSD to speed up the HDD as it was originally.

Good luck

PS you can also do this inside windows using the IRST icon on the task bar.

 

Hello,

Thank you for the reply,

I can't go thru to acceleration options. Should I create RAID volume first ?

 

No. I assume you have formatted the SSD? If you do this then it cannot be used for caching. Go into windows and run the disk management. Right click on the SSD and select delete partition. It will now be available to use as a cache drive and as soon as it is activated the disk will 'disappear'. All you see is the primary HDD drive.

If you have used this drive (80gb) to boot or install windows then you will need to do it again with the caching active.

 

Thank you for the answer, I did what you said.
http://i.imgur.com/qpdDYbT.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/wED8ygz.jpg
Are those correct settings ? And will there be any problem when i shrink the partition to create D: drive ?

 

That's how it should be. The maximum cache size is 64mb so there is some disk space left. You can format the spare 11 gb as a drive partition or just ignore it and have no D drive. Do not make any changes to the 64gb partition and you should be fine.

 

I meant to shrink main hdd(1TB), i guess its fine too. Thank you so much for your help.

 

Yes if you want to have more than one drive but do not try to add the spare 11gb on the SSD to the HDD in a RAID array or you will slow the SSD down to HDD speeds.

Sounds like you have fixed it .