Activate RAID from AHCI setup

Just upgraded from XP to W8 then W8.1 and cannot get the RAID to work.
For the upgrade, I took out the RAID drives, and just left the system drive in place.
In XP the system has run with a system disc connected to a SATA port, and two larger drives in RAID1 (Mirror). The 3 discs are IDE drives each with an IDE to SATA converter. Its an MSI H67MA-E35(B3) motherboard with low power (eco) i3 processor.
After the upgrade, the BIOS SATA was set to IDE. When I put the two larger drives back into the PC (these are in caddies), W8.1 recognises them as separate drives.
I changed the BIOS to RAID, then got "Windows ran into a problem and needs to restart ..", then into a fix loop. After investigating, I found that changing the registry key for a SATA AHCI boot is where to start: HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\storAHCI\StartOverride
to 0, then in msconfig setting boot to safe mode, restart the PC, in BIOS set SATA to AHCI it took ages to boot to safe mode. Resetting to normal boot it works fine in AHCI mode.
The result is the same as IDE mode, W8.1 boots and works the same. 
With limited and often unclear information from the web,  I wanted to move onto RAID config. So changed the key: HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\iaSTorV\StartOverride to 0, this I understand is the Intel RAID driver activation, and setting
to boot to safe mode, I then set the BIOS to RAID on reboot. W8.1 never even gets to safe mode,  no matter what I then do I cannot get W8.1 to get past the "Windows ran into a problem and needs to restart ..".
I would really appreciate this answering once and for all, with a process that actually works, by someone who knows and is not just guessing - preferably someone from Microsoft PLEASE.
What seems so silly is that W8 is reading data from the main drive to give me the repair loop, so why has MS made this so stupidly difficult. It is not uncommon to want to add additional drives to a PC, and in the past this has not been an issue to achieve. This
seems a real step backward from XP
Thanks.

I just stumbled across this thread while trying to solve the same issue. My son has a PC with an ageing Intel D945GTP motherboard running Windows 8.1. I acquired a second hard drive and wanted to add it and create a RAID 1 array as security against HDD failure
but without losing data from the existing drive. At first I encountered all of the frustrations that you have detailed here. However, in the end, it was quite simple. I found a couple of threads online that indicated the procedure, as follows:
In Windows, open msconfig.exe (in Windows 8 just type this in the Metro screen and it will find the file)
On the Boot tab, check the box for Boot in Safe Mode, click apply and OK, then close msconfig.
The computer will prompt you to restart, click OK
During restart, go into the BIOS (click and hold either Delete or F2 depending on your motherboard)
In the BIOS, select the Advanced tab and go to Drive Configuration
Select RAID
Save changes and exit the BIOS.
The computer will restart and Windows will boot in safe mode. While it is booting in safe mode, Windows will install the RAID drivers. You can check it in Device Manager under Storage Controllers.
Open msconfig again and unckeck Boot in Safe Mode
Windows will prompt you to restart. This time Windows will boot normally with RAID enabled.
You can now download Rapid Storage Technology from the Intel download center and use the software to configure your RAID array from within Windows.
This process was relatively simple and worked perfectly first time in Windows 8.1 32 bit.

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