I have an ASUS P5W HD Motherboard and I think I want to stop RAID 0 on it's only 2 drives and use them both as ACHI single drives along with adding a new SSD and Windows 7 Home Premium OS Install as the new boot drive. The computer currently has Windows XP Pro. (This is my first drive and OS install.)
I believe I have to enter the BIOS and select ACHI. I also think at this point I will loose my OS and info on the drives if I continue to boot up. So I will need to have the new SSD connected and the WIn 7 disk in the DVD drive and have the DVD drive selected as the boot up drive to install the new Windows 7 OS on the new SSD drive. Is this correct?
So if my thinking is correct (and I am lucky), I will end up with a new boot drive with Windows 7 installed after the install finishes and I make the new SSD drive with the new Windows 7 OS the boot drive.
It is at this point that I am unaware of what will happen to my old previous RAID drives. Will they automatically revert to a second and third drives? Or what else do I have to do in this scenario?
I am also wondering if a better course of action is to just install the SSD and make it the boot drive after installing Windows 7 on it and if I could simply leave the 2 RAID 0 drives alone and then have a D: boot drive (SSD and Windows 7 OS) and a RAID 0 pair of drives (C
. I know the drive names would be backwards and I can research perhaps how the change them so that the new SSD drive becomes C: in the event that conflicts with any software.
I should mention there is no data to be concerned with. This PC only runs one one program and security which I will install after all is done and I update the motherboard BIOS and a QVL memory file ASUS has listed along with the current BIOS. There is no data to have to save or migrate to the resulting system.
Many thanks for reply to point me in right direction...
I believe I have to enter the BIOS and select ACHI. I also think at this point I will loose my OS and info on the drives if I continue to boot up. So I will need to have the new SSD connected and the WIn 7 disk in the DVD drive and have the DVD drive selected as the boot up drive to install the new Windows 7 OS on the new SSD drive. Is this correct?
So if my thinking is correct (and I am lucky), I will end up with a new boot drive with Windows 7 installed after the install finishes and I make the new SSD drive with the new Windows 7 OS the boot drive.
It is at this point that I am unaware of what will happen to my old previous RAID drives. Will they automatically revert to a second and third drives? Or what else do I have to do in this scenario?
I am also wondering if a better course of action is to just install the SSD and make it the boot drive after installing Windows 7 on it and if I could simply leave the 2 RAID 0 drives alone and then have a D: boot drive (SSD and Windows 7 OS) and a RAID 0 pair of drives (C
. I know the drive names would be backwards and I can research perhaps how the change them so that the new SSD drive becomes C: in the event that conflicts with any software. I should mention there is no data to be concerned with. This PC only runs one one program and security which I will install after all is done and I update the motherboard BIOS and a QVL memory file ASUS has listed along with the current BIOS. There is no data to have to save or migrate to the resulting system.
Many thanks for reply to point me in right direction...
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