very confused

Hi
I received my M17x R2 yesterday so far I only have one problem
I cant get one of my hard drives to work on it. It came with 2x 500gb hard drives in raid 1. I removed both of them and installed windows on my New 80GB Intel X25-M SSD, then i put one of the 500gb hard drives back in (after installing drivers and updating the bios) I then tried to initialize it in disk management because it didnt show up in my computer. but it will not initialize see what i mean here
I have tried it in an other computer and it shows up fine in my computer no initializing need
I think the problem is the hard drive settings in the bios but i dont know that the hard drive options in the bios mean so if some one could shed some light on my problem that would be great

 

Oles chiefs. Try turning off all the RAID settings. Set it to AHCI or something like that since you are using your SSD for your OS drive now. Disable RAID 1 and 0.

For the 2nd hard drive you should be able to create a new partition once the bios settings are fixed up.
If you still have trouble reading the 2nd hard drive try taking it out again and reformating it in your other notebook or comp to NTFS filesystem format.

Cheers.

 

I had a look and have set it to AHCI but I cant find any other raid options if there are any? Same problem exists

 

i have the same issue...most of the suggestions I've gotten to get RAID option was that I needed to reformat my Hard Drive(s) and the raid option would usually in the 1st or 2nd screen when booting up the computer, you would have to hit F8 or something (if someone can check, much is appreciated).

I really don't want to re-format my computer again after I did a system restore from a bad update...sooo many programs to re-install and find their cd keys..isn't fun.

By the way, what is the best raid option for performance? raid 0 or raid 1?
I've got 2x500GB sataII 7200RPM hard drives) in AHCI at the moment.

 

Finally fixed it i enabled all raid options then saved and restarted a bios screen came up telling me it disable all raid configurations or something from the harddrive i followed prompts then i changed all the raid options in the bios back to AHCI and now it works
thanks for your ideas people

 

RAID 0 is for best speed and performance chiefs.

RAID 1 is for mirroring the hard drives data contents. You will lose half the total size of your combined hard drive capacities.

Running in RAID 0 you will essentially combining both hard drives and run them as a single entity. You can however still create separate partitions when reinstalling windows.

To disable RAID or enable RAID you have to always format. There is no other way chiefs. So think wisely as you will have to either create a new RAID array using the F10 option after the screen bios flashes up or delete the RAID array and then reinstall the OS on the single SSD hard drive.

Cheers.