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    I need help!

    Discussion in 'Alienware 18 and M18x' started by mcdonnell77, Feb 13, 2015.

  1. mcdonnell77

    mcdonnell77 Notebook Guru

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    Hello everyone.
    I own an Alienware 18 with a 256gb Samsung 840 and a 750gb hdd with a 64gb mssd. I did a clean install of windows 7 on the 840 ssd and now windows won't detect the 750gb hdd. I believe it may have something to do with the raid configuration but I'm not sure what to do. Or how to properly clean install windows on an ssd whilst leaving the hdd+msata for storage?
    Any help would be most appreciated.
     
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    Rotary Heart Notebook Evangelist

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    Open your disk management and check if it detects the hdd. If it does, probably you just need to import it (I believe the correct word is import) just right click it and read the options. There must be one that says import or something like that
     
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    Fixed it now. Turns out I needed to install the Intel rapid storage driver. I've never clean installed a system like this before.
     
    mcdonnell77, Feb 13, 2015
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