Some help with failed Raid config..

[Benny The Dip]

Hey folks,

I would appreciate some advice please with a raid configuration on my old gaming PC. When the local shop built it 4 or so years ago I had 2 x NVMe drives installed one of which has the O/S installed on it and the other I put games onto it and Steam etc...

The guy mentioned it would be a good idea to put 2 x 1TB SSD's in Raid 1 for storage and backups etc. One of those drives has had a catastrophic failure apparently and for a time I couldn't see the E drive but now it is visible and I managed to get all of the info off onto a external drive.

I want to remove both drives as they are no longer required but I am not sure how to disable the raid function in the bios. I have had a look in the bios and the option to delete raid is there but I am not sure what would happen to my PC?

I assume that if I could delete the raid from Bios I can just power down and physically remove the drives or would there be something required to alter in the Bios? I have an Asus M/B and while I am in the boot process since the drive failed I get the code A2 on the board and have to go into Bios... Exit the Bios without doing anything and hopefully it will then boot. Sometimes I have to repeat that process a couple of times to get it to boot.

The Raid drives never had any O/S on them that has always been on one of the M.2 drives so is it possible because one drive in the raid has failed the PC is still looking for it?

I have a new shiny PC now so this is like a back up PC but still a decent rig..

Thanks in advance

 

[Snapshot]

If you're talking about the option that gives RAID or AHCI then that only allows you to create RAIDs, it doesn't do it in the BIOS. The RAID is probably created In Windows so have a look in Disk Management and see what's there.