HELP WITH RAID SETUP!!!! please help!!

[bryzobond]

Hi guys i just need a little help with RAID My gaming PC had 1TB of storage so i decided to get more storage so i got two 2TB harddrives and i wanted to set them up in RAID 1 so if one fails i still have all my data. This is just for important files and games etc. not for my OS.

So the problem is that i dont have Windows 8 pro and i dont know how to do it through the BIOS
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i have a MSI GD65 Z97 motherboard. could you tell me how to do it? or give me a link to a tutorial? thanks

 

[ss202sl]

Here's the manual.
http://us.msi.com/support/mb/Z97GD65_GAMING.html#down-manual

 

[13thmonkey]

however, as windows is already installed you'll need to change the driver for the disk from ahci to raid.

To be perfectly honest it would be better to use the second HDD as a simple backup location and set it to backup once or twice a day, you can then restore if you need to, RAID can be a pain.

 

[ss202sl]

Creating the raid inside the bios will wipe the drives so make sure you have a good backup before you start.