setting up SSD on win8

Z3rotol3ranc3 · 8 Jan 2014 at 21:37

hi,thought id try posting all this here,had posted gen hardware a similar thread,but still feeling uneasy,so..

Basically got a PC with Vista,needed to upgrade so just bought win8.1 64bit and thought id go SSD as well.partly because u cant upgrade vista to win8,so thought easier to get new SSD for new boot drive,also coz i wanted a SSD anyway.

So i was going to unplug my HDD(2x150GB raptors in Raid0)

plug in SSD Samsung 840 evo

go into bios select boot from cd

load up and install win8 onto the SSD

go BIOS again select SSD as boot drive

Does that sound about right,i know i can use data migration but thought might be safer to just reinstall the few games i play.no files to worry about losing...

So what have i missed ? loads probably. any advice please?

wazza300 · 8 Jan 2014 at 21:50

Can you or have you backed up the raid data?

If so just leave them as they are,plug in the ssd makesure your still in raid mode,enter raid console and setup the array for the hdd's and not the ssd

Then install windows 8 to the ssd

Z3rotol3ranc3 · 8 Jan 2014 at 21:52

ok how do i enter raid console? its been awhile since i set up raid

point decay · 8 Jan 2014 at 21:57

set the SSD to boot as AHCI

Z3rotol3ranc3 · 8 Jan 2014 at 22:10

where in bios? whats AHCI?

Attu90 · 8 Jan 2014 at 23:12

Z3rotol3ranc3 said:
where in bios? whats AHCI?

What motherboard have you got ?

wazza300 · 9 Jan 2014 at 03:04

If you want raid again you need to set ports to raid not ahci

It's ctrl and i at startup to enter the raid console

Dervious · 9 Jan 2014 at 10:10

Z3rotol3ranc3 said:
any advice please?

Don't unwrap Windows 8.1.

Return it and get Windows 7.