Replacing one of my HDD with an SSD

[Squky]

EDIT : I have found similar threads regarding this matter BUT I am still not sure as to what processes/steps to follow and I do not want to mix and match from different guides as it may screw up my system so any proper full guide in relation to my specific topic would be much appreciated


So I recently bought a Samsung 840 Evo SSD which comes with a migration software which allows me to clone my data including the OS onto it without having to reinstall anything, my only problem is that after cloning the data onto that SSD from my original drive, I end up replacing one of the HDD ( theres 2 298 GB sized drives in the laptop) which then leads to me only being able to use the SSD and not being able to utilise the spare HDD still inside my laptop

Dxdiag of my system:

   Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_rtm.101119-1850)
           Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: Alienware
       System Model: M17xR3
               BIOS: InsydeH2O Version 1.0 A12
          Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2670QM CPU @ 2.20GHz (8 CPUs), ~2.2GHz
             Memory: 8192MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 8140MB RAM
          Page File: 3031MB used, 13246MB available
        Windows Dir: C:\Windows
    DirectX Version: DirectX 11
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
   User DPI Setting: Using System DPI
 System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
    DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled
     DxDiag Version: 6.01.7601.17514 32bit Unicode

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

Why can't you utilize the second hard drive any more - can you be more specific as to why you can't?

 

[Squky]

Why can't you utilize the second hard drive any more - can you be more specific as to why you can't?

Well as far as I know its part of a RAID volume which is the way it came from the beginning so me removing one of them seems to make the volume fail so I'm guessing the only option is to clone my data from my HDD to my SSD which is externally linked to my laptop and then delete(?) the RAID volume so I can use my drives separately?

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

Well RAID, yes, messing with the drives would cause a problem if it's configured for RAID. Not my area of expertise unfortunately, never used RAID.

 

[jason8100]

The reason why you can't access the RAID disk could be some sort of protection mechanism. Because 1 drive failed, the other is kept offline untill redundancy can be achieved again. Try to access the raid configuration and see if you can do anything there.

 

[Y0GI]

You likely have a RAID 0 installation so one HDD will not work w/o the other. You would have to go into the BIOS and switch your SATA Mode to AHCI (from RAID) and reformat the HDD to be able to use it. All data on the drive will be lost if you do this!

It not too late to turn back. You can uninstall the SSD, return the original HDD and reestablish the RAID array. In this way you can back up your data to another drive before formatting, which will result in loss of data.

Yogi