SAFELY changing from AHCI to RAID 1

[primuspaul]

Got two identical HDDs and want to make a RAID 1 out of them for storage. Also have a Z170-E MOBO. I can't figure out a way to do a RAID 1 out of the 2 HDDs without also screwing up my seven install on an SSD. Advice?

 

[file3456]

This is just a registry edit. You can read about that here: Moving from AHCI to Raid - Working Hard In ITWorking Hard In IT

I don't think you need to change msconfig for safe mode. I don't even know why you'd want to boot in safe mode at all. Once you change the registry values for RAID, you then power off, reboot directly into BIOS and change to RAID. The thing is I'm sure the RAID driver needs to be installed prior to even changing the registry and rebooting into BIOS.

I'd do a full disk clone before you do this. You do run the potential of not having a bootable system if something goes wrong.

 

[samuria]

How are you going to impliment raid ie MB or card normally you have to enter controller bios to implment the raid

 

[primuspaul]

How are you going to impliment raid ie MB or card normally you have to enter controller bios to implment the raid

Well I was planning on doing it via MB.