I currently have a computer with 4 160gb hdd's working in a Raid 10 configuration. I have windows 7 professional for my OS. The way I am reading my motherboard (MSI 975x platinum) manual is that it can handle 4 sata drives with the Intel ICH7R chipset and one sata drive with the JMB361 chipset. The 4 raid hdd's are currently connected to the ICH7R Chipset. I want to install a 250 gb ssd by itself in the JMB361 slot for the operating system but keep the other 4 hard drives with the raid 10 configuration for data. My question is what would I have to do to make this happen and would I have to re install windows 7 on the ssd. Another question is when I was done installing the OS on the ssd how could I delete everything on the other 4 hard drives but keep the raid 10 configuration. Thanks in advance for any answers.
How to install new SSD on a current Raid 10 configuration.
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CircuitDaemon
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The easiest way to go would be a clean install of windows on your SSD. Depending on the SSD brand, it will come with certain cloning software that may help. The issue you may face is that not all cloning software supports raid and won't be able to see your partition. I know that Acronis True Image does support most common built-in raid chips on consumer boards, but I'm not sure if the free version that comes with SSD's will support it.
Whatever you do to the SSD regarding the Windows installation, if your data is already backed up somewhere, just boot Windows from the SSD. If you cloned your installation, it will already have the RAID drivers and will see your older drives as another partition. If not, just install the drivers from your motherboard and you'll be able to see the partition(s). Go to start, right click on "computer", then "manage". From there go to the disk manager on the left and finally delete all partitions from the old installation. You'll be able to create a new partition from there. You'll never see them as separate drives as that's setup on a semi hardware level from the BIOS. Once you create a new partition, you'll be able to use it for whatever you want and will still be in RAID 10 as Windows does not manage how disks are distributed.
Whatever you do to the SSD regarding the Windows installation, if your data is already backed up somewhere, just boot Windows from the SSD. If you cloned your installation, it will already have the RAID drivers and will see your older drives as another partition. If not, just install the drivers from your motherboard and you'll be able to see the partition(s). Go to start, right click on "computer", then "manage". From there go to the disk manager on the left and finally delete all partitions from the old installation. You'll be able to create a new partition from there. You'll never see them as separate drives as that's setup on a semi hardware level from the BIOS. Once you create a new partition, you'll be able to use it for whatever you want and will still be in RAID 10 as Windows does not manage how disks are distributed.
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