I have an older Acer Predator 15 (G9-593) and I want my SSDs taken out of RAID!

Hello!

I have had this laptop for a very long time and I want the SSDs out of it. I will likely upgrade the storage to a single SSD in the future (RAID doubles the risk of data loss) and want to have JUST ONE SSD as the storage in the M.2 bay. That is not the issue though. I have an image of windows 10 and other drives. That leaves me with two 128Gb SSDs in RAID configuration that are useless to me outside of their home laptop. If I wanted to sell or reuse them individually, how would I take them out of RAID and wipe them clean? As it is, they do not even show up when inserted into other machines. Acer's BIOS seems to lock me out of all advanced options for reconfiguring SSD partition styles/mounting/formatting options. Does anybody else know how to help me out?

Thanks!

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Voidsteper

AnhEZ28 said:

@Voidsteper when you install that SSD in another machine, does it shows up in the disk manager.

Hey! I wanted to let everyone know what worked for ME. After putting the SSD(s) into another device (with an UNLOCKED BIOS), I was able to set the drive configuration to AHCI from RAID. After doing this, I booted the drive using my favorite software and, through the Linux terminal (can also be done in command prompt), I full cleaned the drive, and made a new partition table with partitions. After this, I installed my OS on it and now it is a good ol' 128 GB drive again. ACER DOES INDEED LOCK THEIR BIOS. You can not do this form within the BIOS that is stock on my model of Predator. Be warned.

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AnhEZ28

@Voidsteper when you install that SSD in another machine, does it shows up in the disk manager.

Voidsteper

AnhEZ28 said:

@Voidsteper when you install that SSD in another machine, does it shows up in the disk manager.

Hey! I wanted to let everyone know what worked for ME. After putting the SSD(s) into another device (with an UNLOCKED BIOS), I was able to set the drive configuration to AHCI from RAID. After doing this, I booted the drive using my favorite software and, through the Linux terminal (can also be done in command prompt), I full cleaned the drive, and made a new partition table with partitions. After this, I installed my OS on it and now it is a good ol' 128 GB drive again. ACER DOES INDEED LOCK THEIR BIOS. You can not do this form within the BIOS that is stock on my model of Predator. Be warned.