Thanks for assisting! I ended up unplugging the drives and plugging them back in. This forced the computer to boot up into Intel's Option Rom directly, which allowed me to delete the partitions and re-create them each for each drive. It's weird that the X-51 R2 has no access to that part of the BIOS unless I did that. Thanks again.
If you haven't created a Dell Recovery flash drive yet, I would. It's the only way to clean-install Windows-8 if you have to. You might also have to get additional restore media from Dell.
You should also straight-file-copy any important data files to a separate USB storage device.
Migrate? You mean RAIDed drives together? Normally, you can't un-RAID drives. You can:
1. Clean Install
2. You can usually create a full backup Image of your RAIDed C: drive, un-RIAD the drives in BIOS, and bare-metal restore that Image to the now-stand-alone SSD C: drive.
Can't walk you through it step-by-step because I don't have x51 R2 or even mess with Intel RAID on desktops.
That BIOS hot-key should work. Sometimes there is an option in normal BIOS to even allow that hot-key-combo or allow (out-of-OS) RAID config display.
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Thanks for assisting! I ended up unplugging the drives and plugging them back in. This forced the computer to boot up into Intel's Option Rom directly, which allowed me to delete the partitions and re-create them each for each drive. It's weird that the X-51 R2 has no access to that part of the BIOS unless I did that. Thanks again.
Tesla1856
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If under warranty, call support.
If you haven't created a Dell Recovery flash drive yet, I would. It's the only way to clean-install Windows-8 if you have to. You might also have to get additional restore media from Dell.
You should also straight-file-copy any important data files to a separate USB storage device.
Migrate? You mean RAIDed drives together? Normally, you can't un-RAID drives. You can:
1. Clean Install
2. You can usually create a full backup Image of your RAIDed C: drive, un-RIAD the drives in BIOS, and bare-metal restore that Image to the now-stand-alone SSD C: drive.
Can't walk you through it step-by-step because I don't have x51 R2 or even mess with Intel RAID on desktops.
That BIOS hot-key should work. Sometimes there is an option in normal BIOS to even allow that hot-key-combo or allow (out-of-OS) RAID config display.