I just tried to set up my pc to run my 1tb WD hard drive and 500 GB WD in RAID mode and now i cannot boot to windows. Heres the short of it, i usually boot off my 1tb hard drive which has windows 7 64 bit installed on it, but i filled that up and so i hooked up my old 500 GB WD hard drive. I do not have any experience with adding harddrives so i figured i needed to set them up in raid mode to use them together(is that correct?) anyway i was in the BIOS (my mobo is a MSI Z87-G45 gaming model) and i clicked on settings,advanced,Intel (R) Rapid storage technology and made a new "raid volume" in that menu. Both my hard drives came up and i thought i set it up right to run them together, but when i tried to boot to windows it now says insert a bootable device.
Anyway i figured i am way in over my head so ill delete the raid volume and just go back to using my 1tb drive and look up how to add my 500 GB drive b4 i kill my pc. Well i was too late, when i went to delete the raid volume it wouldnt let me do that unless i deleted the raid frame work on both my hard drives. I thought that it just made that raid frame work when i created the raid volume so i went ahead and deleted the frame work. Now my two hard drives are separate and i set my original 1tb that i always boot off to be the bootable device. Well i save changes and reset and now i get the message "Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key"
I fear deleting the raid framework has rendered my 1tb harddrive with my OS installed on it to not be recognized as a bootable drive! This hard drive has always needed to be set to raid mode and will not boot in ACHI or IDE and i have tried booting in both with no luck. I sincerely appreciate any help with my huge problem.
Anyway i figured i am way in over my head so ill delete the raid volume and just go back to using my 1tb drive and look up how to add my 500 GB drive b4 i kill my pc. Well i was too late, when i went to delete the raid volume it wouldnt let me do that unless i deleted the raid frame work on both my hard drives. I thought that it just made that raid frame work when i created the raid volume so i went ahead and deleted the frame work. Now my two hard drives are separate and i set my original 1tb that i always boot off to be the bootable device. Well i save changes and reset and now i get the message "Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key"
I fear deleting the raid framework has rendered my 1tb harddrive with my OS installed on it to not be recognized as a bootable drive! This hard drive has always needed to be set to raid mode and will not boot in ACHI or IDE and i have tried booting in both with no luck. I sincerely appreciate any help with my huge problem.