Someone please help

[TheBlindBandit]

I recently bought a Samsung evo 970 plus m.2 PCIe NVMe drive -500 GB (Got it for 77 USD in a sale). Cloned my 1 TB toshiba HDD using the Samsung software. Booted from the ssd after erasing the HDD(used DBAN). Today I decided to run diskpart after initialising the HDD for the first time, and noticed that both my drives were in RAID for some reason. I mostly use the game for development (currently a student), and gaming. Didn't think I needed RAID. So I went into the BIOS and changed the SATA operation setting from RAID on to AHCI and now my laptop's in bootloop. Reverted to RAID on, but still no luck. I have a dell support assist pen drive in case I need to re-install windows. Could someone please help?

 

 

 

Should I keep the setting for SATA operation RAID on , or in AHCI?

Or is it okay that I'm using RAID? Will it affect my performance since one disk is a HDD and the other an NVMe SSD?

 

 

 

System Specs:

 

Alienware 15R3-2016

 

8 GB DDR4 Ram

 

Intel core i5-6300 HQ

 

Nvidia GTX 1060

 

1TB 2.5" HDD

 

500 GB PCIe NVMe M.2 Samsung 970 Evo Plus SSD (Newly added)

 

Planning to use SSD as boot drive, and HDD as storage drive.

[mr fobs]

If you're still in boot loop I would install windows on your old drive and then boot to that drive to try and recover data from the new one that is boot looping, then DBAN your new drive and start over and keep it out of RAID if you don't want it.

 

If your old drive is configured to RAID and you don't want it you could switch the configuration before installing windows on it as well. Unfortunately I do not know much about RAID.

 

 

[TheBlindBandit]

5 hours ago, mr fobs said:

If you're still in boot loop I would install windows on your old drive and then boot to that drive to try and recover data from the new one that is boot looping, then DBAN your new drive and start over and keep it out of RAID if you don't want it.

 

If your old drive is configured to RAID and you don't want it you could switch the configuration before installing windows on it as well. Unfortunately I do not know much about RAID.

 

 

Thanks! I actually found a solution. I'll just leave it here in case this happens to anyone else. 

 

Just do that to switch from RAID to AHCI without facing bootloop issues. Switching to AHCI also helped because now I can use Samsung magician properly by installing Samsung's ssd drivers. Previously since RAID 0 was on, the system used IRST, which was incompatible with Samsung's software.