Removing Raid 1 on a newly restored system

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benrl1

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My Raid 1 PC crrashed and I had to install a new operating system. Currently there is no Intel Rapid Technology driver running on the system. 2 questions:

Am I running a Raid system (BIOS says I have a Server Express Chipset SATA RAID Contoller in spite of not having the driver installed?

I want to convert the second drive to a NORMAL HDD, not RAID. How do I go about safely doing it without disturbing the first drive?

Thanks. Ben
 
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When you first boot up it should say Intel RAID and then show the existing drives and RAID's. If it still says RAID 1 Degraded then the new hard drive has not been added to the RAID.

You can just go into the BIOS and set the HDD mode from RAID to IDE or AHCI. You may or may not have a BSOD on startup. If you do, put it back to RAID and post back and we can do some regedits to get past that.
 
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Both IDE and AHCI rsult in a BSOD upon reboot. Boots when I return to RAID (whew!). Is my system still running the drives in RAID 1 in spite of the fact I haven't installed the Intel Rapid utility? Will I do any harm by installing the utility?
 
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