RAID and non RAID drives in the same comptuer, can't get it to boot :(

[Midnightsun]

Good day all,

I just picked up two WD drives that i wanted to set up in RAID 1 for storage, to my computer that curently has Win 7 on a hd non RAID. Its not working is this possible or did i just dump alot of $$ on two HDs that i cant turn in to a RAID. It will not boot when i have it set to RAID in the BIOS, but if i change it to IED i cant see my RAID hard drives when win boots up in my computer.....

OS: Win 7
Mother board: Asus P6T Deluxe V2
Hard drives: 2 x WD 2TB drive


Thanks for the Help.

 

[treefrog07]

Page 3-14 of your manual (select the OS on the Download tab) shows where to enable SATA as RAID.
Page 4-45 describes the steps you will have to do to set up a new RAID volume.

 

[Midnightsun]

aye Tree frog07 re did it following the manual, but same problem it will not boot if i enable RAID in my Bios, and if change my bios back to normal it will booot but i am not able to see my RAID drives...

what am i missing i know its some thing small and its going to make me bang my head off my desk lol

 

[treefrog07]

OK, after you created the RAID volume, did you save and exit BIOS, re-enter BIOS, and select the single Win7 HDD as the 1st boot drive?
Never mind, I just re-read your original post.

Have you installed the Intel Matrix Storage Console (second download on the left-side of the page) to your Win7 installation?
If not, do it.
Then see if you can set up a RAID volume inside Win7 with the Console.