SSD RAID HELP!

killzone141 · 22 Oct 2014 at 22:50

Ok so i am RAIDing my two SSDs tomorrow, i have one already in my computer that stores my OS and i have a secondary hard drive for games. If i do a backup of my C drive (SSD) and then restore it once i raid my two ssds, will it work?

Logically in my head i think it will work but i want your guys opinion, Thanks

Semple · 22 Oct 2014 at 22:54

It may work as it's still seen as one logical volume. But any kind of installations like that i always recommend a fresh install.

killzone141 · 22 Oct 2014 at 22:56

Yeah. I just want to avoid that haha. The amount of games and drivers and windows updates.... next thing i know my weekends gone and i'm back in work haha

wazza300 · 22 Oct 2014 at 22:59

It wont work because your original windows install won't have the raid drivers installed,and to install them you have to set to raid first in bios and do clean windows install

There is a reg tweak you can do to fool windows into installing the raid drivers,then backup your windows install,setup raid,restore windows to the raid array

Google on how to do the reg tweak it works because I did it to get caching to work

killzone141 · 22 Oct 2014 at 23:29

i can't find a tutorial for that, think i will just do a fresh install and store my videos, music and other stuff to my backup drive

wazza300 · 22 Oct 2014 at 23:46

I'll try and find it for you,its easy to do

killzone141 · 22 Oct 2014 at 23:47

Thanks dude

wazza300 · 23 Oct 2014 at 00:05

In the Windows\System32\Drivers folder is a filecalled iaStorV.sys installed by OS by default.

Into the registry we go.

Navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\iaStorV

Change REG_DWORD "Start" from 3 to 0

Reboot

Go into the BIOS and changeSata Configured To to RAID

Windows should boot as normal, no lockups or BSOD's and you should see it installing Device Drivers followed by Device Installed Successfully

DaleTheWhale · 23 Oct 2014 at 08:58

Backup your game files and whatever else and do a fresh install, the regedit tweak works as I've done it myself but makes sense to have a fresh system when installing onto RAID for the sake of not running into errors.