Hello,
I have an HP Z800 Workstation with a 1.5TB HDD running Win7Pro-64. I've been using a 128GB SSD cache (Synapse/Dataplex) for about a year with no trouble, but thought that IRST would do a better job, for writing in particular. So I installed IRST... and run into touble.
IRST put the two disks into a RAID... but since the disks are not the same geometry, and I appear to have an old chipset, it never actually worked: IRST was unable to create a cache (i.e. to accelerate the HDD with the SSD) and the SSD became useless, as its Dataplex conroller clashed with the RAID.
In short, I would like to GET RID of the RAID (in view to replace the HDD by an SSD altogether)... but that appears to be impossible: I uninstalled RST and followed the "removdrv.txt" advice to switch (back) from RAID to IDE in the machine Setup... but Windows BSODs unless I keep the RAID. Yes, I tried all and every "Repair" options Win7 could offer.
So my question is: how can I get rid of the (useless) RAID and get back to IDE? Important: since the RAID never actually worked, ALL the data are still on the HDD in all integrity - proof: I took the SSD out of the machine and it still works fine. The HDD is fine, with all data there - surely it must be possible to access it via IDE rather than RAID?
Many thanks for your advice!