Posted November 6, 2018 I bought a system that has raid0 with two ssd's that have windows on them. Is there any way to disable raid without losing windows? If not, what are the precise instructions to disabling raid and installing windows? Whats the difference between delete and reset ( option 2 and 3 ) CPU: AMD FX 8350 | GPU: AMD R9 270 Windforce | MOBO: ASRock 990FX Extreme 3 | RAM: Kingston HyperX 8GB | Case: X Predator X1 |CPU COOLER: Hyper T4 NAZIS WILL RISE. Link to comment https://linustechtips.com/topic/991613-didable-raid0-without-losing-windows/ Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted November 6, 2018 Only way to get rid of RAID is by deleting the RAID volume, which includes all the partitions and data on the volume. You'd need to copy the data elsewhere. Or just clean install Windows which also gives the benefit of removing some old leftover crap. HAL9000: AMD Ryzen 9 3900x | Noctua NH-D15 chromax.black | 32 GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 MHz | Asus X570 Prime Pro | ASUS TUF 3080 Ti | 1 TB Samsung 970 Evo Plus + 1 TB Crucial MX500 + 6 TB WD RED | Corsair HX1000 | be quiet Pure Base 500DX | LG 34UM95 34" 3440x1440 Hydrogen server: Intel i3-10100 | Cryorig M9i | 64 GB Crucial Ballistix 3200MHz DDR4 | Gigabyte B560M-DS3H | 33 TB of storage | Fractal Design Define R5 | unRAID 6.9.2 Carbon server: Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX100 S7p | Xeon E3-1230 v2 | 16 GB DDR3 ECC | 60 GB Corsair SSD & 250 GB Samsung 850 Pro | Intel i340-T4 | ESXi 6.5.1 Big Mac cluster: 2x Raspberry Pi 2 Model B | 1x Raspberry Pi 3 Model B | 2x Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ Link to comment https://linustechtips.com/topic/991613-didable-raid0-without-losing-windows/#findComment-11935419 Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted November 6, 2018 Author 3 minutes ago, jj9987 said: Only way to get rid of RAID is by deleting the RAID volume, which includes all the partitions and data on the volume. You'd need to copy the data elsewhere. Or just clean install Windows which also gives the benefit of removing some old leftover crap. So how do i disable raid and clean install windows? CPU: AMD FX 8350 | GPU: AMD R9 270 Windforce | MOBO: ASRock 990FX Extreme 3 | RAM: Kingston HyperX 8GB | Case: X Predator X1 |CPU COOLER: Hyper T4 NAZIS WILL RISE. Link to comment https://linustechtips.com/topic/991613-didable-raid0-without-losing-windows/#findComment-11935424 Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted November 6, 2018 You'd need to prepare a windows 10 bootable usb stick so that you can reinstall windows once the raid array has been disabled. As raid0 spreads the data across two drives, disabling and resetting the array will cause the data to be wiped/inaccessible. Laptop: Gigabyte AERO 15X - i7 8750h, gtx 1070, 16gb ddr4, 2TB Samsung NVME Current Build:NZXT h440, Intel i7 5930k, Corsair H100i, Asus x99 deluxe, 16gb Corsair Vengeance 2666mhz LPX, Evga 1080ti hybrid SLI, Evga supernova 1200w, Lg 34gk950f monitor, 2x Samsung 850 Pro in Raid 0 <p> Link to comment https://linustechtips.com/topic/991613-didable-raid0-without-losing-windows/#findComment-11935427 Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted November 6, 2018 You can delete raid volume using option 2 but make sure you have backup your data and have windows installer on USB ready for window install. Magical Pineapples
