Advice on new SSD settings

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DarkCloud

Limp Gawd
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I just bought a G.Skill Phoenix PRO 120GB SSD and I installed windows 7 64bit on it using AHCI settings under my motherboard but before I did I unhooked my other drives to set up the SSD with no confusion. Well I was running two 1TB WD Black drives in a raid 0 config and windows of course doesn't recognize the raid after it boots. So I went into my bios changed everything back from AHCI to RAID and set my new SSD to be primary drive and my RAID as secondary drive and now windows will not boot. So I went back into the bios and set my RAID to primary and boom it booted to my old partition. My question is how do I get my new SSD to work with my old RAID drives without loosing my data on the raid drives. Do I need to try a bios update? Do I need to change the position of the actual sata cords on my motherboard? I have the sata cords in Raid=slots 1&2 on motherboard and the SSD = slot 3 on motherboard. I also have a sata dvdrw in slot 4 and a old 250 gig drive in slot 5

motherboard = ASUS M4A79T Deluxe

Any advice would be awesome!
 
RAID is AHCI but with RAID support IIRC. So you should be able to reinstall the OS on the SSD (Yes reinstall) while the mobo is in RAID mode. Though don't quote me on that.

Also, contract a mod to move this thread over to the Data Storage Subforum. Better fit over there and you should be able to get better help.
 
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