If your operating system is already installed, you can still use RAID as long as the following conditions are met:

• Your system has a RAID I/O controller hub (ICH).

  Note If your system does not have a RAID ICH, you will not be able to use RAID without installing a third-party RAID controller card.

• Your RAID controller is enabled.

  Warning If your RAID controller is not enabled, enabling the RAID controller is not recommended or supported when a SATA hard drive is the boot drive. Enabling the RAID controller may cause an immediate blue screen with an 0x0000007b error code, followed by a reboot. If you wish to enable it, you will need to reinstall the operating system.

If both of the above conditions are met, use the following steps to create a RAID volume.

1. Install the Intel® Matrix Storage Manager.
2. Turn off the system and install one or more additional hard drives.
3. Turn on the system.
4. Use the Intel® Matrix Storage Console to create a RAID volume. You can migrate the data from a single hard drive on your system to a RAID volume that includes that hard drive plus the newly added hard drive(s). You can also create a new RAID volume using the newly added hard drives.

Related Topic
How to migrate from a single drive to a 2-drive RAID 0 or RAID 1 volume

This applies to:

Intel® Matrix Storage Manager