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Cannot get single SSD drive to boot after copying over OS from Raid0
Hello everyone,
I have been running my Windows 7 system in Raid0 with two Intel 320 SSD's. I recently purchased a new Intel 520 SSD and want to go back to running the single drive as I have plans for the other two SS drives. I used the Intel cloning feature and it said successful, change over your drives and reboot. This is when the problems began. I physically disabled the two Raid drives, hooked up the single drive, restarted the computer, went into the BIOS and changed the boot order to the new drive, switched it from Raid to AHCI mode. The system gets as far as the Windows 7 logo then reboots. I've gone back into the BIOS several times trying different things hoping to figure out what setting is not correct. I wasn't sure if I was suppose to make the changes via CTRL -I and set the drives back to non-raid through there and or in the BIOS. I read something about not having any other hard drives hooked up as the system would put the boot files on there? Wasn't 100% sure of what that meant but I did have a regular HDD hooked up when I did the cloning process if that helps for information. Any ideas as to what steps I might be doing in the wrong order? I have since put everything back to the original state so I can use my system. Thanks in advance.