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June 4th, 2013 08:00
Alienware Aurora - disable raid 0
Hi all,
My Alienware Aurora has 2 HDD in RAID 0, and as I'm going to reinstall everything on it I would like to change it to 2 separate drives. Just in case one drive fails, at least I won't loose all my data...
However, I've been struggling to manage to disable it. I went in the bios and set the following
Configure SATA#1-6 as - AHCI (was RAID before)
OptionROM Display Screen - Display (was hidden)
The problem is that when I try to reinstall windows, only one of the 2 HDD is listed when I have to select "Where do you want to install windows", and selecting the hard drive (even after deleting/recreating/formatting the partition) results in the following message: "Setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition..."
If I do not configure SATA#1-6 as AHCI but leave it as raid, then I can reinstall windows without any problems...
Any idea?
Cheers
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