Intel Rapid Storage Screen on Boot Up After Second Hard Drive Installed

NaviTheFairy

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Hi there, just wondered if anyone could help me at all!?

I put in a second 1TB WD Black hard drive into my PC today, but now I get the Intel Rapid Share screen when I boot up. It goes off too quickly to read but looks like it shows both HDDs as being installed and has 'non RAID disk' written next to both. It flashes up for 1 second then boots as normal.

I'm not technical at all, but I've put a HDD in an old PC before so I followed the instructions for my HP desktop: mounted and screwed the HDD in, connected to the motherboard with SATA cable, plugged it into a spare power connection on my 460w PSU. Booted my PC, checked it was recognised in the BIOS, then, once at the desktop, went to Disc Management and chose single volume, renamed, formatted and all looked great......I even went ahead and moved all of my music samples across!!

I only knew something was wrong when I restarted the PC....also, since putting the hard drive in, my PC now takes 2-3 tomes longer to shut down.

Does anyone know what's going on?

I'm on Windows 7, intel i5 650.
 
Hey there, NaviTheFairy!

I'm sorry to hear about your issues with the system. However, do you have any RAID configuration setup with those WD Blacks of yours? If not, I'd recommend you to disable the Intel Smart Response Technology and see if the issue will persist.
It's good to have the Intel Rapid Storage Technology driver though, so don't delete/disable the driver it.
Here's something you might find helpful as well: http://www.thewindowsclub.com/system-appear-intel-rapid-start-technology-enabled

Hope it helps. Keep me posted! :)
SuperSoph_WD