Reconnecting my RAID0 setup after main drive change

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Hi, I just bought a Samsung 850 Pro to replace my ancient Intel X25-M and just spent the day pulling my hair out trying to reconnect my 2 WD drives in RAID.
I have a GA-MA790FXT-UD5P motherboard, with the SSD drive on the GSATA and the raid drives on the Sata (ATI JB750 chip).

At first I couldn't install windows, because the Win7 (64, ultimate) couldn't recognize the drive (but BIOS could). So I switched the BIOS setting to IDE, thinking I could set up RAID after Windows install. However, after installing windows and drivers, every time I change to RAID, I get BSOD (Stop: 7b).

I tried many things, including messing with regedit. Placing my Intel SSD back and everything works normal.
Is anybody willing to help me through this step-by-step?

Thanks in advance.
 
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In this case, an option would be making an image of the old SSD and restoring it on the new one.
Another option, making an image of the RAID volume, reinstalling Windows on the SSD with SATA set to RAID and reconfiguring the RAID volume, then restoring the image on the RAID volume.

Theoretically, a third option should work too - when installing Windows - loading both AMD and SATA drivers (when asked where to install Windows).
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Yes, I got my drivers from http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3005#dl and installed the AMD Chipset driver which should include the RAID driver. Later I tried to install the ahcix64s.sys file again, separately, but AMD Catalyst froze just before showing 'finish' button. So I'm actually not sure if that worked.

After that, used a register script from http://www.wikihow.com/Install-AHCI-Support-for-ATI-SB600-SATA-Controllers-on-Existing-Windows-Installations, but received error that ahcix64 didn't have signature. Tried to boot with RAID anyhow, failed. 🙁
 
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It sounds like the drivers are unsigned, and you're running afoul of Windows' security settings that block installation of unsigned drivers. Try turning off that bit of security.

http://en.kioskea.net/faq/3914-windows-7-how-to-install-unsigned-drivers

 
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Thanks, that might work. I'll have another go on Friday. Strange though, that I didn't encounter this problem when I first installed my RAID set-up. Perhaps I did it differently then.
 
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"installed the AMD Chipset driver which should include the RAID driver. Later I tried to install the ahcix64s.sys file again, separately, but AMD Catalyst froze just before showing 'finish' button. So I'm actually not sure if that worked. "
It does not, as the drives are connected to the other controller, not the AMD one.
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3005#dl
Under SATA drivers, the GIGABYTE SATA2 RAID Driver
 
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I installed that one as well (not the pre-install driver), but actually the Gigabyte sata (gsata: JMB322) is where my SSD drive is on. the HDD drives are connected to the south bridge, or the AMD SB750 controller.

I could use the AMD SATA RAID Driver (pre-install), but it is the same ahcix64.sys driver as in the chipset driver set.

 
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In this case, an option would be making an image of the old SSD and restoring it on the new one.
Another option, making an image of the RAID volume, reinstalling Windows on the SSD with SATA set to RAID and reconfiguring the RAID volume, then restoring the image on the RAID volume.

Theoretically, a third option should work too - when installing Windows - loading both AMD and SATA drivers (when asked where to install Windows).
 
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That's what I did now: just started again from scratch and everything works fine now. Thanks!
 
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