Dual boot raid 0 and ahci

[ONEname]

Hello guys/girls,

 

I have 2 hdds in raid 0 with windows 7 and one ssd where I want to install windows 10.

 

Is it possible to dual boot raid 0 (2 hdds) and ahci (1 ssd)? Or can I just switch in bios from raid 0 to ahci, depending which os I want to access?

[Electronics Wizardy]

What board and whats the rest of the specs?

 

Often you have to make a single drive raid volume and use that for boot, but id probably just get rid of your old raid system and use a single drive.

[Master Disaster]

Theoretically you should be able to do it all in RAID mode. The single SSD should still be available on the RAID bus as an installable volume.

 

Try booting up a 10 installer while in RAID mode and see if Windows shows the SSD as usable.

[ONEname]

Well ancient specs:

MOBO: m4n98td evo

CPU: 1055t

RAM: DDR3 Ripjaws 4GB

 

I would love to have one drive and only 1 windows but hdds are 1TB and ssd is 256GB. So I can transfer all my data. And I don't want to really spend more money just to transfer files. As I don't use pc much other than movies/web.

 

I installed ssd in a system and I can see it in windows 7 and can open it. If I get what you are trying to say, is that I need to change boot drive from hdds to ssd if I want to switch between os?

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, ONEname said:

Well ancient specs:

MOBO: m4n98td evo

CPU: 1055t

RAM: DDR3 Ripjaws 4GB

 

I would love to have one drive and only 1 windows but hdds are 1TB and ssd is 256GB. So I can transfer all my data. And I don't want to really spend more money just to transfer files. As I don't use pc much other than movies/web.

 

I installed ssd in a system and I can see it in windows 7 and can open it. If I get what you are trying to say, is that I need to change boot drive from hdds to ssd if I want to switch between os?

Do you have a backup? Id probably restore backups on to a single hdd. And you should really make sure you have a backup before making any major changes like this.

[ONEname]

No I don't. I only have these 2 hdds and ssd. If I had more drives, than I would just transfer everything and do a clean install and not bother like this.

[Kilrah]

You just leave it in RAID, won't hurt anything.

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, ONEname said:

No I don't. I only have these 2 hdds and ssd. If I had more drives, than I would just transfer everything and do a clean install and not bother like this.

Thats what Id suggest. Id make sure to have a backup to prevent data loss in case a drive fails or something else causes data loss.

[ONEname]

5 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

You just leave it in RAID, won't hurt anything.

When I get home I will try to leave them in raid and see if I can just switch boot drives.

 

5 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Thats what Id suggest. Id make sure to have a backup to prevent data loss in case a drive fails or something else causes data loss.

Well I know I should have backup. Maybe one day xD.

[Kilrah]

14 hours ago, ONEname said:

Well I know I should have backup. Maybe one day xD.

Well when people say that that day often becomes "after you've lost everything already"