w700 with 2 320gb drives raid 0

[johnp126]

Hi all.

anyone know how to build it without raid?
will you be able to Ghost or use Acronis on a raid drive to a non raid sata drive in the drawer to create other systems? I am new to RAID, never seen it in a nb though i know it has been around in alienware / dell. trying to move into the nb without having to rebuild it again

[barrywohl]

I migrated my 320 GB dual hard drive RAID 1 to non-RAID using recovery disks. However, if you print out the Intel Storage Matrix help section and focus on the "Creating a Rapid Recovery Disc" you might find a way to migrate from RAID to non-Raid, I'm not sure.

I did my migration by changing from RAID to non-RAID in BIOS and then installing to a fresh hard drive from Lenovo recovery discks.

I didn't try Acronis TrueImage or Ghost. I do know that when you switch from RAID to non-RAID in the BIOS and then try to boot from a RAID hard drive, it doesn't boot and recognizes that the hard drive is already set up as RAID. I'm sorry I can't help more.

[johnp126]

i used Acronis and put a drive in the dvd/cd bay. it cloned and worked fine. After a shutdown I pulled the 2disks and changed in bios SATA to compability mode (wasn't sure what mode was right). That worked and I first booted the new system disk in the drawer. Then I put it into bay 0 and booted ok.

I also made a recovery set just in case.

Does anyone know if compatibility is the correct setting for SATA? I'd rather back myself up than waste the disk space.

[QFoam]

i used Acronis and put a drive in the dvd/cd bay. it cloned and worked fine... I.. changed in bios SATA to compability mode (wasn't sure what mode was right). That worked... Then I put it into bay 0 and booted ok... Does anyone know if compatibility is the correct setting for SATA?

My W700 came with a single SATA drive, and it was set to AHCI.