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Just put together a new system from scratch with a SSD and two HDD's. I installed Windows without the HDD's connected. After installing windows and all the motherboard drivers I moved onto to setting the HDD's up in a RAID1 configuration. After setting them up in the BIOS as RAID1 I promptly get the blue screen of death when Windows goes to load. Windows setup starts and has no clue what the problem is.
Back to the bios and set them as regular drives, Windows boots fine. Did a little research to find out once installed Windows needs a registry edit so it will load the RAID drivers.
Am I the only one that has ever added a RAID array after installing Windows? I know it's not common but come on, this shouldn't be that hard.
I've had exactly one system that was easy on the nerves for RAID installation and it was set up in the BIOS. Every other one I've ever done was a PITA.
The issue is that Windows doesn't load HDD interface drivers during boot that it doesn't need. Simply adding a RAID controller wouldn't be a problem. Changing the type of HDD interface between Windows and the boot drive is. At least there's a simple registry edit to make the switch in Windows 7 without having to reload the OS. That trick doesn't work under Win8. Not sure if there's another trick but I couldn't find one.
I have a RAID array that I've been using since Windows XP days that I've moved across computers several times (while keeping the array intact). It's now on a relatively new computer running Windows 7. I moved it to the computer after already installing the OS (on an SSD). It's always gone smoothly for me.
Wonder if that is a known issue for your make/model motherboard? Have you checked for a BIOS update?
Perhaps time to use bcdedit or a GUI 3rd party alternative?
I have a RAID array that I've been using since Windows XP days that I've moved across computers several times (while keeping the array intact). It's now on a relatively new computer running Windows 7. I moved it to the computer after already installing the OS (on an SSD). It's always gone smoothly for me.
When you installed Windows the SSD was set it up as RAID from the start?
Wonder if that is a known issue for your make/model motherboard? Have you checked for a BIOS update?
Perhaps time to use bcdedit or a GUI 3rd party alternative?
After you use the BIOS setup of a Windows 7-based computer or a Windows Vista-based computer to change the Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) mode of the boot drive to use either the Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) specification or redundant array of independent disks (RAID) features, you receive the following error message when the computer is restarted:
This issue occurs if the disk driver in Windows 7 or Windows Vista is disabled. This driver must be enabled before you change the SATA/RAID mode of the boot drive.
When you installed Windows the SSD was set it up as RAID from the start?
That's where my mistake was.
I didn't do anything special when installing Windows on the SSD. I installed it as if it were a regular single-drive computer. Then I installed the RAID controller (Adaptec) into the PCIE slot and attached the hard drives to it. Since I was moving an existing RAID array, all I had to do was install the drivers and attach the drives. The drives and card were already configured.
I admit that my scenario is not identical to yours as you are creating a new array.
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