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AHCI and Installing SSD on Mirror RAID 1 Set Up
Hello
Motherboard: Asus P7P55D-E Pro
Windows 7 64bit
4 Hard Drives, 1 is boot drive (C), 1 is non-RAID and 2 set up as RAID 1
I am about to replace my Boot drive with a Crucial M550 SSD, by cloning the current drive to the SSD. This appeared a fairly straight forward procedure until reading of the problems associated with running in AHCI mode. I've seen the tutorial and the need to modify the registry to allow installation of AHCI drivers.
Because I have RAID 1, the Intel P55 chipset SATA is set to RAID in the BIOS. I'm presuming that if I were to change to AHCI the RAID would be lost and the PC would likely not boot at all.
If possible could you tell me the best procedure to follow to set up my SSD with my current set up. I'd prefer to avoid fresh re-install and clone if possible.
Thanks for any help.