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How to migrate primary system drive from RAID array to SSD with Windows already installed?

I currently have an SSD (C:) with Windows 10 installed on it (C:/Windows/*). I also have a RAID 1+0 array of 4 HDDs (D:) that does not have an OS installed. I would like to remove the RAID (D:) ...
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PCIE SSD Raid0 not bootable but everything is OK on it

I have a MSI GT72S 6QE laptop where the OS (Windows 10) is installed on a PCIE RAID0 SSD (I know, Raid0 sucks, I won't make that mistake again when buying a laptop). On of the two SSD's in the RAID ...
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Why Windows 7 will not install when using Marvell MST644R HyperDuo?

I recently wanted to upgrade my desktop by adding a VANTEC (Marvell) UGT-MST644R (2mSATA + 2SATA) Raid card with HyperDuo capability. I also purchased two 240Gb SSD cards that fit directly on the ...
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Can Windows Server 2012 R2 be installed onto M.2 SSD drive?

I'm about to build a server machine based on XEON E-2246G placed most probably into ASUS WS C246 PRO and I want to have a M.2 SSD drive as primary for the OS Windows Server 2012 R2. The M.2 SSD disk (...
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Very slow bootup time after adding SSD - Windows 10

I wanted to increase the speed of my DLL PC so added a new 120 GB SSD hard disk in addition to the previously present hard disk, system boot up time became very slow. It is litreally stuck at bios ...
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RAID-0 SSD failure: I/O error, err_mask=0x4

Set up I have an ASUS UX301LA-DE022H. It contains two SSD SanDisk SD6SP1M-256G-1102, 256G each, configured as an Intel Firmware RAID 0 (a.k.a. fake RAID). What happened I was using Windows normally....
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Can't boot to Windows 10 from RAID 0

I got myself a Silicon Image 3114 SATA Controller which is capable of RAIDing two discs. I have two SSD sporting approx. 230 GB each. I wanted to enable RAID 0 (striping) to have one "virtual" drive ...
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Boot from old hard drive

The motherboard of my old computer died suddenly and so I bought a new computer. It has two 1TB HDDs on RAID 0 and comes preinstalled with Windows 10 Home. I wanted my computer to boot from my old ...
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Acer Aspire S7-391: No bootable device

After fixing the motherboard of my Acer Aspire S7-391 i tried to boot it from the stock SSD. However, i get a screen which lists the details of RAID Volume and Physical Devices. The last line says "...
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Failure of 1 SSD in Raid-0 that was bootdrive stopping computer from booting

I've spent 4+ hours searching this site and Google for someone to have/address my issue, and have had no luck so far, so I was wondering if someone could help me. Thank you! My computer has 2 32 GB ...
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Problems creating a bootable RAID volume when imaging from HDD to SSD

I have an old Dell XPS420 with an Intel RAID controller on the MB. For years I’ve had RAID 1 enabled on a 2x1TB array set up as two volumes: A 300GB volume which has Windows 7 installed on it and the ...
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How can I restore RAID 0 on my DELL laptop?

I have been formating my dell laptop for quite a while, I bought it back in 2012, with one year warranty, it ended last august, but I think since the moment I formatted it to windows 8.1 I probably ...
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Intel DX79SI won't work with RAID-1

I built a brand new system, that has an Intel DX79SI mainboard, 16 GB DDR3 (four fours), nvidia geforce gtx 470 (from older system), coolermaster 700w psu from older system, intel core i7 3820, latest ...
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Windows 7 not booting after failed SRT (SSD caching) install

This is a fairly new computer, only about a month old. i7 2700k, z68 motherboard, with a 1.5tb WD black HD, and a 128gb crucial M4 ssd. I followed the instructions for setting up ssd caching, the ...
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New SSD (Corsair) takes 1-2 minutes before it's found after first boot

My new SSD Corsair CSSD-F60 actually works - using it for boot and system disk (Windows 7 64-bit). But when first (cold-) booting the PC it's not properly found by BIOS and Intel ICH9R Controller. The ...
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