P67A-GD65(B3) and drive upgrade (3TB, GPT) issues

Hi,
I was happy P67A-GD65 owner.. until now. I've bought 3TB single drive to replace old 2x1TB drives working as RAID-0.
PC had no problems at all with detection new drive, I've connected it with SATA2 port&cable due to such case construction. I've partitioned it with GPT style = all fine.
Troubles started once I wanted to clone RAID-0 partitions to new drive. MBR->GPT partitions are not an issue, but I've got 8 operating systems there (3xWindowses, 5xLinuxes), so I had to use two-stage bootmenu: first stage MBR-based (GRUB) with direct Linux starters + entrance to Windows menu, and second stage EBR-based (Win Vista/7-style) with Windowses only. Strictly I have no idea which program is able (if any, as I doubt) to make simply copy of all structure to new drive, because of MBR... I decided new drive will be GPT-like, so no more WIndows XP and MBR -> if so, so MBR-based boot-menu goes to h*ll -> if so, so first stage menu is gone, half of my operating systems is unstartable.
So I decided to go with "manual way" and install all OSes by hand. Yes, it's a pain. One week probably out of my life calendar.
So I disabled SSD and RAID, sticking with new drive only. Windows 7 has been installed. OK then - I think - time to enable RAID-0 and copy data. ZONK... I simply can't boot "new" drive (UEFI-based) with RAID enabled.
You must know I've done Win7 install with no RAID enabled, as well as BIOS option regarding to SATA mode was set to AHCI (whether my previous setup required setting this to RAID).
SO my question: is it possible to boot PC from UEFI-based drive (GPT-style partitions) and have RAID-0 (MBR-style) attached somehow ? Drive requires AHCI mode and hangs up with RAID mode (bluescreen). I underline - it works the opposite way: I can boot from MBR-ed RAID and attach GPT single drive (BIOS SATA settings: RAID). Have I to reinstall Win7 with RAID turned on ??
Cheers,
Martin

No, it's not GPT partitioning. I've done this properly now, Windows didn't shout during install...
So - summing up:
All connected (SSD & 2xHDDs in RAID-0 & new 3TB HDD) - to Intel SATA ports:
port 0: 3TB Toshiba
port 1: SSD
port 4: RAID-0 vol1
port 5: RAID-0 vol2
.. in BIOS there's SATA mode set to: RAID mode. Clicking F11 - bootmenu - during startup:
* Windows boot manager (UEFI) boot - shows screen with corrupted uefi/someething file, repair or reboot
* Intel RAID-0 boot - loads Win7 from SSD, new drive is shown with no problem
Single drive boot (SSD & RAID-0 unplugged):
* Windows boot manager (UEFI) boot - loads Win7 from new 3TB drive
So I can't work with newly instaled WIndows (and copy a whole content of "old" HDDs having booted from new drive), I have to boot "old" MBR-based RAID-0 system and copy files instead. It's a bit odd as if I wanted to connect RAID-0 (or another bootable drive) in the future = boot might be impossible ?
I'm just afraid how Linuxes will go... brrr.

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Bottom line is if you want decent easy OC then get a 'K' series CPU. You're getting frustrated trying to OC a CPU that wasn't designed to OC to begin with. You're not going to get much of a performance increase from the piddly little bit of an OC on that 2300 anyway.
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MOVED: P67A-GD65(B3) and i5 2300 overclock = 3.3 GHz max ?

This topic has been moved to Overclockers & Undervolting & Modding Corner.
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=150808.0

Quote from: Henry on 27-July-11, 06:16:05
Bottom line is if you want decent easy OC then get a 'K' series CPU. You're getting frustrated trying to OC a CPU that wasn't designed to OC to begin with. You're not going to get much of a performance increase from the piddly little bit of an OC on that 2300 anyway.
Thanks for answer, but I know those facts very well as I am computer builder & troubleshooter
I was just curious, and far away from frustration, how much is worth my new "baby", let me remind my first sentence:
"I've just bought a SB mobo & CPU and try to figure out what can I do with it in terms of o/c. Just for my future reference."
I don't know why people treat this as newbie stu*id question "OMG, mummy bought me this PC and my brother told me what o/c is and I want to make a rocket now"
I always do such "recko" like maximum o/c after purchase, which allows me to build the future strategy for years, that's all
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