Changing the Raid out

[yellowroses]

Thank you for being here to help!

My object is to go from raid0 to ahci.

I feel like I have read an entire library, and have reached point of overload. So...

My conclusions are the following:

1. change from raid to ahci in bios (I've looked. ahci, raid, ide are the 3 choices).
2. ctrl-I to fix the raid screen to non-raid.
3. change the local system reg key for msahci to zero (from current setting 4).

I have downloaded Fixit 50470, have not run it yet (as I don't know what it does).

All my good files/data are off the computer and on a stick. Ready to do a brand new install...if I can just figure out which one to do when and how many reboots to do and when to do them! :eek:

So can someone just tell me very simply...."a" do this, "b" then do that...because I have already ruined one holiday weekend, a vacation weekend and several weeks of all my off-time trying to get to this point.

 

[yellowroses]

Store-built machine
Vista 64 ultimate
Intel Core2 Q6600 2.40 GHz
Intel DG965WH motherboard
SATA drives - two 500G on raid0
ATI Radeon HD5670
4G RAM
Raid screen showed: "Intel Matrix Storage Manager Option ROM v6.1.1.1001 ICH8R with Raid5 c 2003-06
Device Mgr Screen>storage controls has:
Intel Desktop/Workstation/Server Express Chipset SATA RAID Controller and also a...
Microsoft iSCSI Initiator

 

[usasma]

What did you do to mount your RAID array?
The step (AFAIK) is to undo it.
Then you can install Windows normally on a normal hard drive.

When I used RAID (about 2 years ago) I used a RAID card.
It was simple to remove the RAID card and then install Windows on one of the hard drives from the RAID array (formatting it).