Quote Originally Posted by sonofander View Post
Has anyone been able to run a raid set while also running a HDD that is not in a raid set?

I'm having some serious problems here... I have enabled raid to run my 2 raptors in raid 0 and everything has been fine w/ no problems. Today I installed a new HDD by itself and tossed an OS on there.

after instalation of the new os, I re-enabled raid and set my single drive as primary boot device. Wouldn't boot. It got to the windows loading screen then bsod. did this over and over till I gave up.

I changed my primary boot device back to my raid array and I can't get into windows. its FUBAR

So now i'm trying to recover data, but i think it's a lost cause at this point...

My question remains... after I put my messed up life back in order, is there a way to run a raid set AND a non-raid HDD???
The way I did it was put a raid array on ports 1 & 2 and single (non-raid) drives on Ports 3 & 4 with raid mode enabled in the BIOS. When installing to the single drive I disconnected the drives on the other ports and installed the OS on the single dive with raid mode still enabled in the BIOS. You will have to hit F6 and install the raid drivers just like you did on the raid array so the drive will be seen by the OS install. When you boot from the single drive it should see the raid array when you hook those drives back up also.

Just my 2 cent worth.... hope it works for ya.

btw: thanks to all that have contributed to this thread I've learned a lot