Re-Install Windows 10 after disabling raid?

[Daniel Woodward]

Hi, Thanks for reading and hopefully helping me out.

I currently have Windows 10 installed on a Raid 0 of Two Samsung 840 Evo's. Because of a change in the way I am using the PC I need to disable the raid and leave them as separate drives.

The reason I am concerned is that windows 10 is bound to your Hardware, not you. So for me to reinstall windows after disabling raid would I need a new copy or would just installing windows 10 again work?

Alternately if I was to re-install windows 8.1 on my machine after disabling raid. Would I then be able to do the upgrade again and get windows 10 that way?

 

[USAFRet]

Reinstalling on the single drive should be just fine. It's mainly the motherboard that is the key component.

 

[Daniel Woodward]

Reinstalling on the single drive should be just fine. It's mainly the motherboard that is the key component.

Thanks for the quick reply. So I should be ok to re-install on a singe drive then. That is good news.

How should I do it? Disable raid go back to 8.1 and upgrade or Disable raid and install Windows 10 from disk?

 

[USAFRet]

Reinstalling on the single drive should be just fine. It's mainly the motherboard that is the key component.

Thanks for the quick reply. So I should be ok to re-install on a singe drive then. That is good news.

How should I do it? Disable raid go back to 8.1 and upgrade or Disable raid and install Windows 10 from disk?

I would go back to 8.1 on the single drive, then do the upgrade to 10.