Z87 set to raid won't see any installed drives except C

NRW92

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New build with 1 drive on port 0 set up in raid for future 1 or recovery.
Adding a drive with files already on it formatted NTFS under windows xp 32.
New computer, 7-64
The drive does not show up in bios but if switched to ACHI [gigabyte ez-setup] the drive does show up but it took so long for it to spin up it was flagged failed once on the desktop.
Taking the same drive and adding it to the built in Marvell controller works regardless what Intel is set at of course and the drive works great as always [although it now thanks to the intel issue shows up RED under my computer].
I never seen this before in over a decade of builds, problem with the z87 chipset?
I do recall in a recent build with AMD if you set the controller to raid the first 4 ports are raid [10 being the max] and the last 2 are then ACHI. Intel does not state otherwise and bios has no setting in regard to this either.
Anybody running into this same issue by chance?
Using the latest Intel Raid/ACHI drivers, not windows default.
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NRW92

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It' not set up in raid, only raid ready, IE the drivers and software are installed but I have not initiated any raid yet until the build it how I want it, then I will start making a copy.

With the Intel controller set to RAID in bios no other drive with files/formatted will show up in bios.
I am sure since I cannot test by deleting the partition to raw then installing and letting windows see if that will
work until I can round up a drive not in use.

I could swap around drives on various XP32 computers without issue with classic Phoenix bios.
 

NRW92

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That is not how Intel raid ready works. You can either set up raid prior to installing the OS with the ROM or you can bypass that, install on one drive and through windows set up raid through the Intel console.
It should not be looking for any raid array because none have been defined, far as 7 is concerned ACHI drives are installed.

I set up my XP machine like this and has zero issues, 7-64 or the new z87 chipset is not playing as nicely.
The drive is II but that should make zero difference to the controller.
I never seen this issue before on dozens of builds, this one is unique.
I can take this same drive and install it on multiple computers and it's recognized and works, not with the new board though.