Add a 120GB SSD to existing Raid

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DevildogDMD

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I have a current Raid 0 with 4 x 1TB HDD. It is partitioned into 2 drives. One is a 80GB partition that i use as a boot drive. The rest of the data is where is store all of my pics, videos, etc. I want to add the 120GB SSD to the system to use as the boot drive and have it not part of the RAID 0 but keep the data portion of the raid in tact. I have a gigabyte ex58-UD5 Motherboard. Is this possible?
 
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drtweak
Your problem was setting it back to AHCI. Since you have RAID you want to leave it on RAID even when you install windows 7. Just unplug the drives and install windows. Then plug back in the RAID.
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Yes. Just add the drive in. Unless you go into the RAID and add it to the RAID (Which you wouldn't be able to. You would have to break the RAID 0 first then remake it with 5 drives in which you will have to backup your whole PC and then restore it) it will just see it as an extra drive.

Then use something like Macrirum Reflect and clone just your OS partition to the new 120GB SSD or just reinstall windows to it (If you do that you will want to unplug the power to all the RAID 0 drives BEFORE you install windows then plug them back in after and set primary boot to the single SSD).

If you clone you MAY have to make a Macrium Reflect Rescue Disk, boot off of that and fix the MBR (boot off of disk, then click on Restore and then Fix Windows boot problems, select the 120GB SSD and next and you should be good).
 
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DevildogDMD

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I tried the middle paragraph. I unplugged the raid set. Installed the ssd and then Windows 7 with the bios set to achi. I did all the updates add and verified Windows was working. I plugged the raid drives back in and changed the bios back to raid and set the boot order to start with the ssd. The system still booted from the os partition of the raid vs the ssd. Should I delete the boot partition completely?
 
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