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Just installed win 7 64 bit on XPS 420 quad core 2.4 gh, 8 gigs ram, 1tb hdd. I went to add the old hdd as a 2nd hdd. win 7 won't see old hdd with vista 32 bit. I went into bios, drives are set up for raid, when I turn raid off and re-boot, it won't boot and restarts. Read that I have to reinstall and setup win 7 again. Is this true? No way to reconfigure to use 2nd hdd as storage drive, I don't need the vista for dual boot. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you in advance.
ComputerSmith
April 13, 2014 7:41:43 PM
Phillip and Yogi,
Before I saw Yogi's response, I followed Phillip's advice. I changed the raid settings in the bios and reinstalled Windows. Restarted with no success. Then read Yogi's advice and changed the registry settings and restarted with no success. I did a little more digging and read to change the 2nd drive's sata connection to the sata1 spot where the DVD was. Reboot with success. You most likely figured I knew to do that first. This is my first experience with drives configured with raids on a home machine, I still have a lot to learn. Thanks to sites like this one and experienced individuals as yourselves who give your time to help us, not so experienced newcomers I salute you. You were both a great help to me. Kudos.
Before I saw Yogi's response, I followed Phillip's advice. I changed the raid settings in the bios and reinstalled Windows. Restarted with no success. Then read Yogi's advice and changed the registry settings and restarted with no success. I did a little more digging and read to change the 2nd drive's sata connection to the sata1 spot where the DVD was. Reboot with success. You most likely figured I knew to do that first. This is my first experience with drives configured with raids on a home machine, I still have a lot to learn. Thanks to sites like this one and experienced individuals as yourselves who give your time to help us, not so experienced newcomers I salute you. You were both a great help to me. Kudos.
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ComputerSmith said:
Just installed win 7 64 bit on XPS 420 quad core 2.4 gh, 8 gigs ram, 1tb hdd. I went to add the old hdd as a 2nd hdd. win 7 won't see old hdd with vista 32 bit. I went into bios, drives are set up for raid, when I turn raid off and re-boot, it won't boot and restarts. Read that I have to reinstall and setup win 7 again. Is this true? No way to reconfigure to use 2nd hdd as storage drive, I don't need the vista for dual boot. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you in advance.I had this same problem. You need the registry setting for the AHCI driver in Win 7. Here's how I did it: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/window...
Worked like a charm and I did not need to reinstall Windows.
Yogi
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