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Re-installing Intel(R) Rapid Storage Technology driver
I just updated the BIOS on my MSI motherboard to the latest version without really thinking about the repercussions. I had the BIOS version of Intel(R) Rapid Storage Technology Driver installed on my ...
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AMD RAID 5 not booting after Windows Server 2012 updates
I've recently been working to reconfigure my home server. I decided to setup a RAID 5 for my operating system and virtual machines using my Asus M5A97 R2.0 built in AMD RAID. I was able to setup the ...
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Dual-booting OS with a shared RAID array
Hardware:
ASRock H97M-ITX/ac motherboard
Two 4TB hard drives
One 120GB SSD
So here's what I'm trying to do. I want to run my two hard drives in RAID 1 through the motherboard's hardware RAID, purely ...
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Building a 4TB raid-1 with WIndows 10
I have two 4TB brand new SHDD built as a Raid-1 array on an (old) nVidia Raid controller.
After having upgraded the Bios, the 4TB drives are recognized as such by the Raid Bios, and I can create a ...
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IBM x3850 m2 megaraid not showing physical drives
I have this IBM x3850 m2 with 2 physical drives installed but when I go to megaraid it doesn't show any of the physical drives
So I can't build a virtual drive to install the OS
What I have tried ...
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Change one disc to AHCI
I have one SSD that I'd like to use in AHCI mode, and two discs in RAID mode. Right now all discs are in RAID - the SSD, and two HDDs. I would like to change only one of them to AHCI?
I found in the ...
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3TB drive on BIOS system
I have a HP Proliant microserver gen 8 on which I am planning on installing Debian. I was thinking of setting up a raid-1 configuration through the built in raid controller using two Western Digital ...
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No RAID boot menu on system start up
I have an HP Pavilion Elite HPE. I used to have an onboard RAID boot up screen but now I do not. Could this have vanished based on a glitch with using a different graphics card or the slow that it is ...
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Raid drive cannot be detected
Only yesterday I bought two new 2GB Seagate drives and set them up as raid and installed lubuntu. It was working fine and there was no problem but today I made the very bad decision of swapping over ...
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Mirror Raid to Single Harddisk ACPI BIOS in the system is not fully compliant with the ACPI
My server used to be setup as a Mirror which means the 2nd harddisk would take the image of 1st harddisk. In anycase 1st harddisk is dead, 2nd harddisk would take over.
It wasn't setup by me & ...
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4T RAID 0 Partitioning issue
I am building a new workstation
1.2T 10K SAS X 4 for Win 7 Pro SP1 x64
I must use RAID 0 for this workstation. What I would like to have is
C = 500G
D = rest of spaces
So BOIS based system with ...
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Does setting BIOS SATA RAID/AHCI mode to RAID will activate RAID operation upon new hard disk insertion?
Each BIOS 'SATA RAID/AHCI' mode comes with at least 3 different mode - Disable/IDE or RAID or AHCI.
Does setting the 'SATA RAID/AHCI' mode to 'RAID' will cause the following:
RAID 1 activated when 2 ...
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AHCI and RAID for BIOS settings when using 2 or more SATA hard disk
My third-hand desktop machine have the following BIOS settings:
At what scenario should I choose 'RAID' and what scenario should I choose 'AHCI' and what other scenario should I choose 'DISABLED'?
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Unclear on how to enter and setup the RAID BIOS on a GIGABYTE GA-Z77X-UD5H LGA 1155
I have two Samsung 850 Pro 256GB SSD’s hooked up to a GIGABYTE GA-Z77X-UD5H LGA 1155.
When I enter BIOS, it shows that I have two of the drives connected, and I have my SATA mode selection set to ...
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Exchanging harddisk of Medion Akoya MD-98634 laptop
I am trying to replace the original 1TB harddisk of my Medion Akoya (MD-98634) with a Crucial BX100 SSD (250GB).
This is what I found out so far:
The original setup is running the 1TB HDD in a RAID ...
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Cannot setup Intel RST
I bought an HP Envy Sleekbook 14 that has a 500 gb hybrid drive (24 gb ssd, ~470 gb hdd). The computer has Intel Rapid Storage Technology support, and it was working when I first booted it up. ...
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RAID 10 "failure" after changing BIOS setting
I have been using a RAID10 setup for quite some time and today, after loading a saved BIOS configuration (for overclocking), it set my SATA mode to AHCI rather than RAID. I didn't notice this and ...
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Drives Disappear when Turning off Raid
I have a Dell Workstation T7610 with a 256 gig SSD and a 2 TB HDD. When I try to disable the raid controller the drives disappear in the boot order. How can I keep the drives active without having ...
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Raid Setup, 2 Hard drives - one shows in explorer
I got a new pc delivered to me and I go to start up the PC using a raid configuration. I then go to are you happy with these settingsand I select yes.
Later on, I then notice that one of the hard ...
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Switch HDD mode from RAID to IDE [closed]
I made an ghost of 2 drives that were installed as raid 0
I made a ghost to one big drive.
Now in the bios, the big drive can only run in raid0 modus.
Is there a easy way so I can run this drive as ...
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Disable RAID Controller at BOOT and Partition Each Disk
I have some decent HP Proliants server that come with "HP Smart Array P410i Controller" enabled, I am using these boxes to set up a Hadoop cluster and I know, RAID is for sure a no-no for Hadoop since ...
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Bios Raid and Windows that wants to format them
I shutdown my PC improperly by holding down the power button. Now Windows sees 2 HDD's with a RAW filesystem instead of my RAID. After the fast shutdown my raid went though the "Verify" stage with 0 ...
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How to configure RAID on Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3
I am trying to set up RAID 0 in the BIOS of my motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3.
I have enabled RAID in the BIOS SATA mode, and I get the option to hit Ctrl + F to enter the RAID option ROM utility. ...
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How to enable Samsung EVO 840 mSATA SSD Self Encrypting Drive with Intel RST RAID 0
I have an MSI GT60-2OD (Haswell MB, UEFI enabled w/o CSM) with 3 Samsung EVO 840 mSATA SSD drives in RAID 0 mode (Intel RST AHCI RAID Controller Miniport aka Intel(R) Mobile Express Chipset SATA RAID ...
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How to configure RAID 1 on Intel Rapid Storage, and partitioning design
I would like guidance on setting up a RAID 1 system from BIOS with Intel Rapid Storage.
System details:
I have Click BIOS II running on a MSI motherboard (Z77A-G43).
I also have 2 x 2TB hard drives.
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Dell Studio Slim 540s JBOD RAID
I'm working on a Dell Studio 540s that has dual 750GB drives in what appears to be a JBOD configuration. The computer reports "Missing operating system" at boot. The BIOS appeared to have been wiped/...
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Why is BIOS switching from IDE to RAID mode?
Acer Aspire M3203. BIOS will randomly default HDD interface to RAID mode and fail to boot Windows 7, claiming there is no RAID array defined and, subsequently, "no boot device." If I go into BIOS and ...
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How to enlarge RAID5 array with MegaRAID WebBIOS?
I'm a little confused with RAID5. I created a RAID5 array group from WebBIOS with 6 drives. Then created an XFS partition on this RAID5 drive.
How can I enlarge the RAID5 without losing data?
In ...
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ASUS P5B Plus motherboard - no any drives found - how to restore RAID array?
We have a small server machine with an ASUS P5B Plus motherboard and 4 SATA HDDs. The HDDs were configured in a RAID10 array. Up until now, everything worked fine, but now the system doesn't recognize ...
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What's the difference between an OROM driver and a "regular" driver?
What's the difference between an OROM driver ("option-ROM") and a "regular" Windows-level driver?
I see a lot of chatter amidst the BIOS-modding community about OROM drivers (modules?) and Windows-...
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