- Dec 2, 2014
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I'm trying to set up a RAID 1 array but having issues getting an existing Windows 7 installation to start up on the RAID controller. It's the Windows catch 22 with an existing installation and installing drivers, however different because the drivers SHOULD be installed but still getting no boot device.
I'm trying to set up the RAID with a Gigabyte F2A88X-D3H, so far that has been the easy part. I have an existing Windows 7 installation on a 250 GB SSD, really don't want to start fresh. The mobo has 8 SATA ports, with the ability to configure 0-3 as RAID/AHCI/IDE and the ability to configure 4-7 as IDE or "same as 0-3".
What I did was connect the two drive to be RAIDed to port 0 and 1 and the SSD to port 4, then turned on RAID for 0-3 and IDE for 4-7. I booted into RAID BIOS and set up the array, easy. Continued to boot and Windows 7 booted up. Went and got the AMD chipset drivers (which include RAID drivers) and installed them. Went to disk manager and the RAID array shows up, formatted it, and assigned a drive letter. In this set up everything works perfectly.
The issue is when I move the SSD to SATA port 2 on the RAID controller it won't boot, I just get no boot devices found. Not sure if there are additional drivers I need to install? Gigabyte has drivers that would normally be installed upon Windows installation, but I assume these are the same AMD drivers that I already installed.
I'm trying to set up the RAID with a Gigabyte F2A88X-D3H, so far that has been the easy part. I have an existing Windows 7 installation on a 250 GB SSD, really don't want to start fresh. The mobo has 8 SATA ports, with the ability to configure 0-3 as RAID/AHCI/IDE and the ability to configure 4-7 as IDE or "same as 0-3".
What I did was connect the two drive to be RAIDed to port 0 and 1 and the SSD to port 4, then turned on RAID for 0-3 and IDE for 4-7. I booted into RAID BIOS and set up the array, easy. Continued to boot and Windows 7 booted up. Went and got the AMD chipset drivers (which include RAID drivers) and installed them. Went to disk manager and the RAID array shows up, formatted it, and assigned a drive letter. In this set up everything works perfectly.
The issue is when I move the SSD to SATA port 2 on the RAID controller it won't boot, I just get no boot devices found. Not sure if there are additional drivers I need to install? Gigabyte has drivers that would normally be installed upon Windows installation, but I assume these are the same AMD drivers that I already installed.
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