[SOLVED] need help turning off raid in bios alienware aurora R9

[hclarkjr]

i just had a samsung 970 evo plus installed and used their image software to to move windows 10 to it from my old drive. all went well except i can not get the magician software to see it and the samsung NVME driver says there is no samsung drive in system. i have found out that my alienware bios is set to raid for some dumb reason and dell will not tell me why saying they can not support me since i put new drive in computer.
how do i turn off the raid? i tried turning it off in bios but windows would not load. i have googled it and have not seen an easy solution for this. i hope you can help!! other than this the drive functions fine but i would like to be able to use the samsung software with my drive.

 

[USAFRet]

Please show us a screencap of the Disk Management window.

 

[hclarkjr]

 

[USAFRet]

All too small. Can't read.

What physical drives are in this system now?
Also, verify the existence or lack of an Optane module. That may account for the "RAID" thing.

 

[hclarkjr]

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[hclarkjr]

there was an optane drive which has been replaced with the 970 and a 1tb seagate hard drive

 

[USAFRet]

there was an optane drive which has been replaced with the 970 and a 1tb seagate hard drive

Right.
And that Optane thing was originally combined with the HDD for a pseudoRAID.

I would suggest a clean install on the new 970, instead of trying to clone this.

 

[hclarkjr]

would i need to turn off raid in bios or leave it alone?

 

[USAFRet]

would i need to turn off raid in bios or leave it alone?

OFF.

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[hclarkjr]

ok, thanx