hello [NAME], thank you for replying again, i finally have a breakthrough, i went and bought a LGA1151 motherboard and migrated all the parts over (CPU, RAM ) and try booting from my HDD alone and it worked ! the m.2 that came with the dell machine is still inside the dell motherboard, so i still have all my files everything. i'm going to get some new parts ( some case, some fans) and move on. thank you so much for your help and guidance throughout this time, i could not have done this without you, thank you so much again ! 
hello everyone,  as mentioned in the subject, i'd like to upgrade to an SSD and i found out the existing system is setup in RAID0 with a m.2 as a cache for the 2TB HDD.  i have since downloaded some disk cloning software just to see if im able to see the RAID0, but the RAID0could only be seen from intel rapid storage software and the cloning software just detects the HDD i'm wondering if my system would boot just by cloning the HDD to the SSD and changing the SATA operation to AHCI. Thank you very much for your time.
XPS 8910, migrating Windows from HDD to SSD