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Windows 7 can't boot in IDE

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Hi!

 

I just tried to make a RAID array with my 2 1TB drives at SATA ports 1 and 2. My boot drive is in port 6. My motherboard is Asus M5A99X EVO R2.0, so I can only set ports 1-4 in ACHI, RAID or IDE and ports 5-6 in IDE or whatever ports 1-4 are set to. If I set port 5-6 in IDE, windows boots to the point of the 'Welcome/Please wait' screen and bluescreens. I cannot see what it says because it is only there for a split second. It does not display said screen, but it is what should come at that point. I tried setting the boot drive to RAID READY config, but it does nothing.

 

Thank you in advance.

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Well, I set it up in software RAID, and I am also NOT going to mess with it at least before an extreme upgrade, so yeah.

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Hi!

 

I just tried to make a RAID array with my 2 1TB drives at SATA ports 1 and 2. My boot drive is in port 6. My motherboard is Asus M5A99X EVO R2.0, so I can only set ports 1-4 in ACHI, RAID or IDE and ports 5-6 in IDE or whatever ports 1-4 are set to. If I set port 5-6 in IDE, windows boots to the point of the 'Welcome/Please wait' screen and bluescreens. I cannot see what it says because it is only there for a split second. It does not display said screen, but it is what should come at that point. I tried setting the boot drive to RAID READY config, but it does nothing.

 

Thank you in advance.

 

The User Manual for the motherboard strongly suggests that 5/6 be used for optical drives.

 

You should probably move the boot drive to one of SATA 1-4.

 

If Windows was installed with the boot drive port set to IDE you will have to tell it that it should load the RAID driver. Only then you can go into the BIOS and switch the port mode to RAID. How Windows is instructed to load the RAID driver depends on the version installed. You might find http://www.overclock.net/t/1227636/how-to-change-sata-modes-after-windows-installation useful.

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The User Manual for the motherboard strongly suggests that 5/6 be used for optical drives.

 

You should probably move the boot drive to one of SATA 1-4.

 

If Windows was installed with the boot drive port set to IDE you will have to tell it that it should load the RAID driver. Only then you can go into the BIOS and switch the port mode to RAID. How Windows is instructed to load the RAID driver depends on the version installed. You might find http://www.overclock.net/t/1227636/how-to-change-sata-modes-after-windows-installation useful.

Thank you! This was very informative. However I have now set it up in software, so I don't plan on messing with it anymore, but thank you for your help.

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