Hello fellow master racians!
I recently purchased 2 250 GB 850 evo’s to go along with my 250 GB 840 evo, and an upgrade (fx8350) to replace my fx 6300. CPU swap went without a hitch, but the problem I’m having is that I can’t get my windows (both 8.1 and 7 installation drive selection as well as 8.1 in OS device manager) to see my raided drives (3 total). I want to do a fresh install of windows 8.1 because my current OS has app issues and there is no fix other than reinstalling windows. Nothing I have tried so far lets me even see the raided drive in windows. I CANT EVEN RAID BROS!!!
My Stuffs:
MOBO M5A97 R2.0, FX 8350 2x 250 GB 850 evo’s and 1x 250 GB 840 evo, I think that’s all that is relevant if there is anything else that matters I will list that as well.
Things I did:
Swapped my CPU, turned PC on and ran prime 95 for about 10mins to make sure temps and chip was good, installed the new drives to the 1-4 sata slots on my MB so that all my ssd’s are in slot 1-3 with my storage drive and blue ray burner being in 5-6, turned on pc, ran disk checks to be sure the new drive were functioning, (they were) went into bois sata configuration and set it to RAID, saved and rebooted and entered the (forgot the name) screen where you set up the raid drives, I defined all 3 ssd’s to raid 0 with default settings except the fast mode disable because it said it would delete my MBR and I wasn’t sure if this would work and didn’t want to erase my OS for nothing, saved and exited and booted from my 8.1 flash drive, got to the “select drive” part and couldn’t find my raided drives, I hit up the google webs and found out I needed drivers for raid in windows installation, I got the drivers from AMD (asus didn’t have raid drivers for 8.1) but it was an application and not the drivers themselves, I also tried the asus windows 8 raid drivers, as well as the disk drivers that came with my motherboard, they all gave me the “no signed device drivers detected” when I tried to scan for them, but I hit browse, and manually pointed to the drivers to load them, it pauses for a few seconds while the load bar goes across the bottom, then it kicks me back to the drive selection screen, but my raided drives are still not there, so thinking I may need to format them while they were in raid formation I cloned my OS to another hard drive, booted from that one, opened my computer, but ALAS none of my raided drives were present, so I went back to bios, unraided all my drives, booted back to windows and reformatted the two 850’s, then tried everything again (raiding and defining, installing windows 7 and 8.1) except only using the 2 clean 850’s but got the same exact results, bios shows my raid array as functioning, and it is even in the boot menu.
I am at a complete loss and don’t know how to get my raid working… PLEASE HALP!!
I recently purchased 2 250 GB 850 evo’s to go along with my 250 GB 840 evo, and an upgrade (fx8350) to replace my fx 6300. CPU swap went without a hitch, but the problem I’m having is that I can’t get my windows (both 8.1 and 7 installation drive selection as well as 8.1 in OS device manager) to see my raided drives (3 total). I want to do a fresh install of windows 8.1 because my current OS has app issues and there is no fix other than reinstalling windows. Nothing I have tried so far lets me even see the raided drive in windows. I CANT EVEN RAID BROS!!!
My Stuffs:
MOBO M5A97 R2.0, FX 8350 2x 250 GB 850 evo’s and 1x 250 GB 840 evo, I think that’s all that is relevant if there is anything else that matters I will list that as well.
Things I did:
Swapped my CPU, turned PC on and ran prime 95 for about 10mins to make sure temps and chip was good, installed the new drives to the 1-4 sata slots on my MB so that all my ssd’s are in slot 1-3 with my storage drive and blue ray burner being in 5-6, turned on pc, ran disk checks to be sure the new drive were functioning, (they were) went into bois sata configuration and set it to RAID, saved and rebooted and entered the (forgot the name) screen where you set up the raid drives, I defined all 3 ssd’s to raid 0 with default settings except the fast mode disable because it said it would delete my MBR and I wasn’t sure if this would work and didn’t want to erase my OS for nothing, saved and exited and booted from my 8.1 flash drive, got to the “select drive” part and couldn’t find my raided drives, I hit up the google webs and found out I needed drivers for raid in windows installation, I got the drivers from AMD (asus didn’t have raid drivers for 8.1) but it was an application and not the drivers themselves, I also tried the asus windows 8 raid drivers, as well as the disk drivers that came with my motherboard, they all gave me the “no signed device drivers detected” when I tried to scan for them, but I hit browse, and manually pointed to the drivers to load them, it pauses for a few seconds while the load bar goes across the bottom, then it kicks me back to the drive selection screen, but my raided drives are still not there, so thinking I may need to format them while they were in raid formation I cloned my OS to another hard drive, booted from that one, opened my computer, but ALAS none of my raided drives were present, so I went back to bios, unraided all my drives, booted back to windows and reformatted the two 850’s, then tried everything again (raiding and defining, installing windows 7 and 8.1) except only using the 2 clean 850’s but got the same exact results, bios shows my raid array as functioning, and it is even in the boot menu.
I am at a complete loss and don’t know how to get my raid working… PLEASE HALP!!
, then just use the entire space that's available. You will want to check the raid status from the raid controller level and make sure that it states that all 3 of your drives are on-line, and check your virtual partitions and that all of your drives are there (C;, D:, etc). If they say they are ready it means they probably still need to be added in the array, we are looking for that they are online.
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