Have you ever tried to change your bios settings from IDE to RAID to either migrate your Windows OS disk to a RAID 1 (mirrored) drive or to add a RAID 0 (stripped) data drive only to find your system BSOD’s (Blue Screen of Death). Well the good news is it is possible to do this.

– shut down your system
– add the new disks to your system
– restart system and enter bios
– switch from IDE to RAID
– build your RAID configured drive
– Boot your system into SAFE mode (this is the critical step as it allows Windows to install the RAID drivers on your system)
– reboot Windows normally
– Now you can verify that the RAID drivers are loaded
– Reboot system using you disk cloning tool
– Clone you Windows OS disk to the new RAID volume
– restart windows using the new RAID volume (with require a BIOS change to point to RAID volume)
– Windows should now work properly on new RAID volume without BSOD