First, it's true that its about twice faster to set two identical SATA disc as RAID 0, however limitation of AMD SB700 chipset, you can't enjoy RAID with Hot-Plug funcitionality.
1. Install AHCI mode by installation
- Change SATA mode to IDE
- After installation, follow below steps
| 1. | Exit all Windows-based programs. |
| 2. | Click Start, type regedit in the Start Search box, and then press ENTER. |
| 3. | If you receive the User Account Control dialog box, click Continue. |
| 4. | Locate and then click the following registry subkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Msahci |
| 5. | In the right pane, right-click Start in the Name column, and then click Modify. |
| 6. | In the Value data box, type 0, and then click OK. |
| 7. | On the File menu, click Exit to close Registry Editor. |
from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922976
2. Install RAID mode by installation
- Change SATA mode to RAID
- Setup RAID set on POST
- Install driver from installation screen (Can use USB as well)
- Now, RAID drives are shown to installation path.
3. Uninstall RAID mode and bring system back to AHCI
- Now, you really want to use Hot-Plug feature on your system, you need to complete PC backup on your system disk first
- It's always good idea to keep system partition as small as possible and extend it only when is needed
- Use Windows Backup Centre to make back up of your system partiton to outside of RAID drives
- Change SATA mode to AHCI
- Boot from Windows Installation disc
- Choose Recovery Mode, the drives are already on the list, since it's not RAID
- Recover system
- Not finished yet, although it's capable of run the system, it's on existing RAID driver and not supporting Hot-Plug feature just yet
- Remove AMD RAID driver from Device Manager, also remove AMD IDE driver as well. Should choose option to delete files as well.
- Try to reboot, it wouldn't because it doesn't have any driver to running the drives, boot from Windows Installation Disc
- Choose Recovery Mode, Windows automatically detects there were problems, and try to install AHCI drivers from installation disc
- Boot to Safe mode for sure it installs all new IDE channels
- Now it's good to go, try to connect SATA device on SATA channel 4 and 5 to check Hot-Plug feature is working
4. Uninstall AHCI and bring system back to RAID
- Never tried yet, however it may possible to follow same step as above, because windows Recovery Mode should needs corect RAID dirver to see RAID drives
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