RAID & 2xTB drives
I have purchased a Revo One RL85 which comes with 2 x 1TB drives. The default is using RAID, but I want 1 OS & 1 Data (looking to maybe install an SSD for OS at some point).
I amended the BIOS so that the PC was not using RAID but it did not boot, I reset back to RAID and all OK. Therefore, I used the restore USB I created and restored the PC with RAID disabled in the BIOS. The restore still only boots with RAID enabled in the BIOS.
Anyone know how I use the retore USB (as I have no Windows 8 media) with the disks not running RAID.
Sorry if I am missing something really simple here.
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I have just performed USB restore & upgrade to Windows 10 leaving the BIOS setting to RAID only to find when I look in disk management I have a C,D,E & F. Partioned like 2 separate drives. Able to delete disk 2 partitions and have a full size 1TB (although both disks show boot & recovery partitions). If I set the disks to AHCI in BIOS it will not boot.
Any ideas?
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If you want to restore a raid 0 image to a single drive you'd have to swap out the drives in the system for a single one that's double the size (same size as the 2 drives combined) as this is how much space the image is looking for to restore to.
If it's a raid 1 image you should have been able to restore it to a single drive, if it is raid 1 and didn't restore you may have to disable the second drive in the bios for the restore and then enable it afterwards or remove one from the unit.
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Cheers, The BIOS does not seem to specify if it RAID 0 or 1. However, looking at the drive config it looks like RAID0. I am going to slip an SSD into the PC and load Windows 8.1 from a bootable USB, use the 1TB disks as separate storage.
A little disappointed with the Doc's on the device, not too much info on the Acer site specific to the device.
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