So there is a solution to this?

HID89

The forum to post this in, is the Alienware Owners Club HERE.

You could also, read the Announcement by Chris M, at the top of the Desktop General Hardware Forum page.

Bev.

We don't know on this forum section as we don't deal with Alienware.  Sorry, you will have to post as directed by Dell on the Alieware section for assistance.

Your Owners manual contains the instruction for the X-58 Intel Raid. IIRC, you have to activate an option (in the normal BIOS) for the RAID Bios Menu to show.

The Owner's Manual seems to only contain the introduction, try these:

Connect all hdd and sata dvd to the last sata port on the motherboard.
If you have 4 hard drives and 1 dvd rom, it should be as follows:
1st HDD on the SATA Port 0
2nd HDD on the SATA Port 1
3rd HDD on the SATA Port 2
4th HDD on the SATA Port 3

DVD Drive on the last SATA Port

 
Then you will set these options in the Normal bios:
- Configure SATA drives as RAID
- OptionROM Display Screen: ON

Then you will create your raid using Ctrl + I to enter the Intel Matrix Raid
- Or, press whatever key it says on BIOS boot, to get into Intel RAID config
1. Ctrl + I to enter the RAID Bios
2. All disks need to be NON-RAID.
3. Select Create Raid Volume
4. Enter a name for the Raid Volume
5. Select Raid 0/1/5/10 for the Raid Level
6. Select a Strip Size for RAID 0/5
7. Select the Volume Capacity
8. Select Create Volume
9. Exit

A SSD would be better for speed. Use those drives as D: and E: .

If you must RAID them, be sure you have a good UPS battery attached. Be sure you Image Backup your drives regularly. For a desktop, I still don't recommend it.

Your Owners manual contains the instruction for the X-58 Intel Raid. IIRC, you have to activate an option (in the normal BIOS) for the RAID Bios Menu to show.

I installed a new SSD on my Alienware M17xR3 recently. It was a Kingston HyperX SSD. I kept getting 0xc000009 error when I tried to boot it and it would crash if I managed to install. I cracked my head to find a solution to this and apparently what worked for me was to put the SSD on RAID1 and the data drive on RAID0. Then, select the SSD as the boot drive when installing windows. That did the trick for me. Its running perfectly fine now. RAID is switched ON in BIOS but I did not install any RAID controllers. Hope that helps someone who's in the same boat.

I found the issue was in the BIOS the is a setting that hides the RAID menu to create dual hdd config. i solved this on my own, thanks for your replies!

I actually found this setting that hides/displays the "Intel Matrix Raid" I found the solution thanks for your reply.