Enabling RAID

yerjam

yerjam

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Hello, I'm trying to enable RAID 0 on two Crucial M4 256GB. These are not going to be used as boot drives, I plan to run my games off them. Problem is I can't seem to enable RAID in my BIOS.

The manual states I need to enable RAID in the BIOS but I can't seem to find an option to do so. I tried enabling it anyway by pressing CTRL+I when the drive list appears after POST but nothing happens. Can anyone give me some advice?

My motherboard is the MSI Z77A-GD65.

Cheers.
 
The ctrl-i option is used to enter the raid config after raid has been enabled in the main bios

as a heads up if you have an existing windows install on a different drive then it won't have the raid drivers so won't boot once you enable raid. There is a registry hack to get you round this though.

Give me 5 mins to find the mobo manual and I'll point you in the right direction to enable raid
 
Ok, the data mode is changed by going into the bios and picking:

Settings - advanced - integrated peripherals - data mode
 
Had a Google around, the registry hack seems a little complicated for my liking. So the only other way is to reinstall windows after enabling RAID right? Bit of a pain, but no biggie.
 
If you don't fancy the hack you *should* be able to move your boot drive onto one of the asmedia ports temporarily. If you then enable raid windows should boot using the asmedia driver and load the new drivers for the Intel raid controller. Once that's installed you should be able to move the boot drive back to the Intel controller.
 
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