MSI GS70 Stealth Pro 2QE

Hi all...I just got this new lappy. It has the GTX 970 and a single 1TB hard drive.
I have 2 256G msata drives I am going to install and set as a raid 0.

First trouble I am running into is the burn recovery utility does not seem to like my flash drive I am trying to use (64G sandisk). So I am using Win8.1 recovery utility instead.

At any rate is the a detailed guide to installing the raid 0 array and then win8.1?

Thanks!

 

The burnrecovery cannot handle ExFat since you use 64GB except FAT32, please try using a 32GB instead.
However, since your system is 1TB version you can't really restore single HDD version onto a RAID array even if your flash drive could work.
Your only options are, 1. obtain RAID-version of recovery images, 2. reinstall OS from scratch.

 

Thanks Kevin....So I guess I could install the OS on 1 msata drive and just use the other for storage.

If I burn the OS as a disk image and reinstall after setting up the raid would that work?

 

Yes, you can use each drive independently as long as you leave SATA mode set at AHCI.
No, because your current image uses SATA AHCI driver instead of RAID driver thus why you needed the RAID image.

 

can i go from RAID to AHCI then? for example my GT72 has RAID 128+128GB = 256GB now. if i were to remove the two 128GB RAID SSD and replaced it with a single 512GB M.2 SATA SSD on AHCI, will my original recovery work?

 

Not sure, have not tried it this way but I am guessing that it may work since AHCI driver is always built-in but isn't selected by default so not sure how the outcome would be.
It will always work if it's strictly RAID image to RAID configuration, AHCI image to AHCI configuration.

 

If you leave the controller in RAID mode but install it to a single drive it will work, you may have issues if you try to put it back to AHCI mode.

 

Thought I would save a few dollars getting a barebones unit...but looks like I may have not been so smart!