@ determo13:
Welcome at WinRAID Forum!

Although I doubt, that you will be able to get RAID 100% working with your laptop, I will do a look into both attached BIOS files tomorrow.
After having done that, I will try to answer your questions.

Regards
Dieter (alias Fernando)

Zitat von determo13 im Beitrag #1

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I've attached original and modded bioses if anyone can help with modifying them in a right manner to make RAID working....

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@ Fernando:

It's a Phoenix BIOS inside a typical Dell EXE package. So PhoenixTool is the way to go here. Open the EXE with PhoenixTool, do any changes to the DUMP folder (be careful to not alter names, mind the size), go to Advanced and select No SLIC (to let you continue) and click GO. This should reconstruct a new modded Dell EXE package. I took the stock EXE and just run it through PhoenixTool with no changes, the result file had the same SHA-1 hash. So it's working properly.

Other that that, HM67 supports RAID according to Intel. How to enable it on this laptop if it was disabled by the OEM, I don't know.

Zitat von determo13 im Beitrag #6

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Well you see, the modded bios has that RAID option enabled, but the problem is with SATA devices, when RAID is on, bios cant see any SATA.

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I've made an experiment, booting from windows startup disk and loading intel RST drivers, and my SATA appeard, but I could not install OS on any on them as it was said 'devices not available at the boot time' or something.

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Which Intel RAID driver did you load?
Which Option ROM settings did you choose within the BOOT section of the BIOS?
Did you get the Intel RAID Utility popup (CTRL+I) while booting?

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Any thougts? maybe BIOS has some drivers missing?

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I don't think, that there is an Intel RAID module missing within the BIOS.

If you want more informations about the use of the PhoenixTool, you may look into the start post of >this< thread.

@ determo13:

At first I would rather like to know, why you want to get the SATA mode "RAID" option with a laptop, which natively does not support any RAID features and usually doesn't even have the space for a second similar sized HDD/SSD (a RAID array requires at least 2 storage drives).
Do you want to create a RAID array at all? If yes, which sort (RAID0, RAID1)?

Here is my comment:

1. I doubt, that you will be able to get full RAID support into a BIOS of an Intel platform laptop, which natively doesn't support RAID at all.
   It is not enough to unlock some BIOS features and to insert an appropriate Intel RAID Option ROM, the system BIOS components have to be modified as well.
   Furthermore the on-board Intel SATA Controller has to physically support all SATA modes (IDE, AHCI and RAID).
2. Some of your BIOS settings seem to be not the best appropriate for a LEGACY mode RAID system:
   • If you want to get an OS installed onto a drive, you have to make sure, that the target drive is bootable and has the required space for the OS installation.

     Zitat von determo13 im Beitrag #8

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     here is error
     http://de-server.no-ip.org/shared/IMG_5813.JPG

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     It seems, that your HDD is not bootable at all in RAID mode. What happens, when you choose the other partition?
   • If you want to boot in LEGACY mode, you should disable the UEFI boot option. Look here:

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     here is the options I have in BIOS and the load screen boot menu
     https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5ecoUy...iew?usp=sharing

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   • Your HDD settings within the BIOS seem not to be the best possible:

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     hdd, once saved and restarted NO SATA devices will be available......
     https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5ecoUy...iew?usp=sharing

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     I would try to ENABLE the "RAID Alternate Device ID" and to DISABLE the "Aggressive Link Power" option.

   • Maybe it is better to DISABLE the "Intel Rapid Recovery Technology" option:

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     Tried to enable/disable all options available etc....
     https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5ecoUy...iew?usp=sharing

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   • Zitat

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     and here is the boot screen
     https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5ecoUy...iew?usp=sharing

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     What happens, when you hit F12?

Zitat von determo13 im Beitrag #11

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Guys do you have any knowledge to compare bioses?

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bioses should be really similar

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They can be rather similar, but that does not mean, that you can successfully flash a BIOS, which has been developed for a special laptop model, into another model with another hardware configuration.
On the contrary the risk to get a bricked laptop is very high. I am sorry, but I am not willing to support your plan to get RAID support into a sytem, which obviously not even has an operable on-board RAID Controller.

Zitat von determo13 im Beitrag #13

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I'm trying to do all kind of things, but no results... or maybe main question how did you extracted that exe file?

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