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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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