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Lenovo u410 dual boot - RAID0 SSD
I bought u410 recently, obviously by mistake because is really big mess that ssd raid thing. It has 32GB sdd + 750GB hdd. Many people reported that they lost access to bios after braking raid arrays. So, I don't wanna this to happen to me.
I did lot of readings before I decided to post problem here. It seems that all people that had turnd off RAID in bios, and formated ssd and hdd, lost bios.
It comes in 4 primary partition.
System: (very small)
C: 750GB
D: 20GB ?what a joke??
and Recover partition...
After braking Raid arrays it is impossible to get back any of those, including system partition. So function keys doesn't work any more, no access to bios, no booting options, nothing. Some people send this computer back to the store, because end user can not get those partitions back...
And I need dual boot, win 7 and any Linux, I prefer Slackware, but it could be any...and I need to repartition these, I realy don't like 20GB of D:
So, when I boot up from debian 6.07 installation disk, it reports raid0 with all partitinos, and scsi0 with all same partitions. So if I resize or delete-make some of partitions and install debian on it, do I lose windows? Debian installer can make dual boot on that RAID SSD thing or no??? I have no experience with those. I always used lilo to make dual boot, and it worked more or less without problems, but on normal laptop with one sata-ide hdd.
Last edited by lesorsier; 03-31-2013 at 08:06 PM.
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