Should I have degraded my RAID?

rhysduck · 3 Oct 2011 at 09:13

Morning,

RAID1 was setup on my pc, I've fitted new components yesterday but yet to install Windows on the new SSD..

The question being, should I have degraded the RAID prior to rebuilding the pc?

Got lots of mumbo jumbo on there I need

rhysduck · 3 Oct 2011 at 10:11

Thanks Harry.

I'm fitting a new board due to my new cpu needing it.
So hopefully my RAID'd drives will just show up as 2x single drivers with identical data on.

When I come to rebuild the array on the new board... is there a way of doing it so I can keep the data on both/one drive without having to format/wipe the drives?

RAID is the only thing I can never get to stick in my head

rhysduck · 3 Oct 2011 at 18:55

Thanks guys.

I have tried loading the Intel RST drivers during the install of W7 (no other drives connected apart from the SSD and DVD Drive) but Setup doesn't like them....

rhysduck · 5 Oct 2011 at 19:09

I don't see a way withing the Intel RST software to recreate a RAID for my two drives.

Does this mean I am going to have to transfer my data to another drive before I recreate the RAID? The only other alternative I see is to do it in the BIOS.

Board is a GA Z68XP-UD3

Edit: I'm only seeing one of my previously RAID'd drives in Windows Explorer.... wtf. There's two drives showing in the IRST software. Can't see no indication if they are raided though.
Edit: Disk Manager is saying "This disk is offline because it has a signature collision with another disk that is online". I take it this is because they were both raided.