LSI SAS 3008 - convert existing C: drive to RAID?

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m0bilitee

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Hi gang, I just got a new system (Dell Precision) with an LSI 3008, and inadvertently ordered it with no RAID configured on the controller. There are 2 drives and I want to create a virtual drive as RAID1 for it, but the individual physical drives are listed as Unconfigured Good when using the MegaRAID Storage manager. Is there a way to convert the existing C: drive over to a RAID set nondestructively?

When I say I just got a new system I mean it's 2000 miles away and I can remote into it, so a nondestructive move would be good. It's not clear in the wizard to creating containers that the data will still be there if I do this. I've done it with Intel software RAID before and the container conversion is fine, but I don't want to brick something a ways away. Silly me.