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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
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