SSD - From NON-RAID to RAID 0

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Hello All,

So I have recently purchase a 2nd SSD disk to do raid 0.

For that purpose I had to backup the previous content in one of the SSD drives which was non-raid.

After doing the backup, I was able to create the raid strip through BIOS using the intel manager.

With the sucessful raid, I just proceeded with a fresh install of windows 8.1. Since that the idea was to recover the previous state, I used acronis boot media to restore the image of the drive.

Unfortunately, this didn't work and the result was a boot loop. After the contact with the costumer service, they told me that I needed to use the Universal Boot Media. I also did this, however It didn't work. It is still in the boot loop.

Please, help me I really need to solve this.

Thanks.

Fri, 09/19/2014 - 20:17
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The problem is, that your recovered Windows 8.1 does not know that the system drive is located on a Raid devices and tries to use the driver for a single disc.
What you could do is to break your Raid again and recover on single disc again.
Then follow this guide to convert you system disc to Raid 0 online:

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=de&lc=de&dlc=de&docname=…

Alternative you can use the Windows disc manager to create a software raid and do not use the Raid function of the board. This has the advantage that you do not need a similar systemboard with an intel chipset in case that your board is failing.

Since BIOS raids are not hardware accelerated you do not loose performance with this method.

Fri, 09/19/2014 - 20:51