Howdy,
I have a ASUS P6X58D Premium rig running Win 7 on which I originally installed a barracuda as my C: drive and 2 1TB drives in a RAID0 config. I set the SATA setting in the bios to RAID during installation of everything, and everything has been working great. I'd now like to replace the barracuda with a SSD drive, and my hope was to use Acronis to clone the HD to the SSD without having to reinstall Windows and my apps.
Per some suggestions I saw online, prior to installing the SSD I switched the bios to AHCI and, again per the recs, change the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\msahci Start key to 0 from 3 (and, as I understand it, make Win7 start the msahci process when I boot up). Please note that I had not yet installed the SSD.
The machine restarted fine, but I was unable to see my RAID disks. I had some boot problems trying to revert, but finally "Restart with last known good configuration" saved me. I'm now a little gunshy.
My question is this: With this MB and Win7 already installed, can I clone my current HD to the SSD then run the SSD in AHCI and still recognize my RAID? Is there a series of steps that I can do that will make this come together? I'd really hate to reinstall everything; I don't have a ton of free time rebuild. Thanks in advance!!
I have a ASUS P6X58D Premium rig running Win 7 on which I originally installed a barracuda as my C: drive and 2 1TB drives in a RAID0 config. I set the SATA setting in the bios to RAID during installation of everything, and everything has been working great. I'd now like to replace the barracuda with a SSD drive, and my hope was to use Acronis to clone the HD to the SSD without having to reinstall Windows and my apps.
Per some suggestions I saw online, prior to installing the SSD I switched the bios to AHCI and, again per the recs, change the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\msahci Start key to 0 from 3 (and, as I understand it, make Win7 start the msahci process when I boot up). Please note that I had not yet installed the SSD.
The machine restarted fine, but I was unable to see my RAID disks. I had some boot problems trying to revert, but finally "Restart with last known good configuration" saved me. I'm now a little gunshy.
My question is this: With this MB and Win7 already installed, can I clone my current HD to the SSD then run the SSD in AHCI and still recognize my RAID? Is there a series of steps that I can do that will make this come together? I'd really hate to reinstall everything; I don't have a ton of free time rebuild. Thanks in advance!!
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