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drydenspyduh

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So I have been looking on the net for the process of getting rid of RAID 0, its failing and I want to go back to a master, slave setup. I have 2 500GB Drives on a H67M-ITX mobo, I am upgrading my mobo and GPU by the end of the week, but my RAID 0 setup is failing so much I am surprised I can even write this message, took like 50 restarts to get Windows 7 64bit to load. Anyways, what is the process of getting rid of RAID 0, I don't have any imaging software so I know I am gonna lose all my data, any and all advise is EXTREMELY welcome! Thanks in advance!
 
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first if you are running win7 you have image software, win7 has a basic copy, so maybe make image first, go to start/ getting started/ backup your files/ in the upper left corner it will say create system image,
 
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Why not copy the files out while the system is running? To kill RAID0 simply boot into the BIOS options and turn it off. That will break the RAID setup on the system and you can install the OS on the new motherboard. You'll have to do this anyway when you swap motherboards and re-install Windows.
 
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On my board you can't just disable raid in the bios, or when you try to install windows without raid it does not recognize the drives, I have to go into the raid utility and tell it to delete raid volume first, then disable raid in the bios, but I am also using SSD drives so that might have something to do with it,
 
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Crap.. I disabled raid before deleting raid volume, when i tried to delet the raid volume it said there was nothing to delet, will I be able to format it? I am getting a new SSD next week too, and will be using the two 500GB drivers as storage, I wanted to use one of them in the mean time and load my OS, will I be able to do this with the way I deleted raid?
 
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no just try and do the install and see if windows see's the drive, I'm not sure but I think mine had come up and said windows can not install on this partition, so if it says something like that just enable raid in the bios again and delete volume, but if it said it was already deleted you might be fine, I was trying to google what the raid software does to the disk when it adds them to a volume, but I'm thinking when you just shut off raid in the bios and don't delete the volume, windows will see the disks as being a broken raid set, sense the disks are still set as part of a raid set, but I could be wrong,
 
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ok so the install seemed to be fine, it saw both hard drives as 498.6GBs, and no option to format them while loading windows. while I was troubleshooting my Logitech unifying dongle issue I found a tremendous amount of files that had the date modified listed from before I reloaded windows/deleted RAID, so I am assuming the data from the previous RAID setup is still present. Also when I installed Steam my Skyrim game saves were still present... which should be impossible.. Any ideas?
 
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