How To Disable RAID 1

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Hello smart people on Tom's Hardware, I am in need of your help!

I have just done a full reinstall of Windows 7 64 bit. I have 2 Intel X25-M SSDs.

Previously, I was running a RAID 1 mirror. I want to break the RAID so as to have two different drives showing up in My Computer in my new install of Windows 7. Is there anyway to do this?

I have the SSDs set to ACHI in the BIOS as well FYI.

Your wisdom is appreciated :)

René
 
Not understanding exactly. Should have to have drives set to RAID in the BIOS (not AHCI) unless you are RAIDing purely at a software level in windows (thought only Pro supported that).

If you know what chipset you have you can google that to see how to go about safely breaking the mirror. There may be a convert to standard disk option. Either way, I'd back up everything...
 
In your Sata drive list you will see the two SSD`s both set to raid.
just change each to Ahci mode and see if it boots into windows off one SSD.
If it does you then want to open disk management in windows and format the second SSD drive if you are planning to use it as extra storage, and a completely separate drive.
 
Find your mobo make and model (printed on it) then look up the details on that manufacturer's site. May have to do some digging. I wouldn't mess with anything until you get good directions.

If you are running raid from the chipset, when it posts you should see the main bios first then a raid bios listing all your drives and whether they are member drives or not. Could be possible your bios is set to not display the raid options so may look to see if there is an option to show it.

If there is no raid control options at boot time, all I can think if is pure Windows-level raid. Never messed with that.
 

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Thanks guys for all of your insights. I went into the BIOS. Changed AHCI back to RAID. The computer rebooted. I pressed Ctr+I to enter the intel utility where I could delete my RAID 1.

BTW, now that I have 2 drives not in RAID, will windows recognize them as two different drives? I ask this because when I was reinstalling windows I just picked disk 0 as the drive to install windows and I want to access obviously disk 1 in windows as well.