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Hello everyone.

Been up all night attempting to solve this issue -

System -
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Gigabyte Gaming 7 z270x
G.Skill 3600/16GB
2 1 TB Evo 850 SSD's
2 1 TB Evo 960 nvme SSD

My nvme drives came in today so I started the process on getting them installed and working and have been at it for hours. The trouble is simply stated as this - once I configure them in a RAID array, they no longer are detected in anything past the Intel RST rom that loads before the BIOS.

The things I have tried are so numerous I'm sure I'll miss sum but this is what I can remember -

Confirmed and updated latest RST RAID drivers from Intel
Confirmed I had the latest z270 chipset drivers as well as Samsung nvme (and Evo 950) drivers.
Booted into a Windows PE recovery simply to see if the drives were detected there they were not.
Running latest bios (beta) available for the Mobo

If the drives are not in RAID, they do show up in windows (and are view able as drives in the Bios etc.

Am I missing somthing?
 
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What version of Windows? Perhaps windows does not have the correct driver. You may have to load the driver during Windows installation.

Try a bootable linux disk or USB drive. https://ubuntu-mate.org/download/
 
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In my case, Windows 10 64/Pro





I saw that as a part of my research and wondered the same thing - no idea and wish they would explain further!



My understanding is this is basically stating that you cannot RAID a U2 drive with a PCIE drive or any other combo, it needs to be same format drive to be in RAID - I.E. two SATa drives or two nvme drives etc.

Ultimately, the what I am attempting to do is get my existing windows installation (currently on a bootable 850 SATA SSD) to move to the new nvme drives in RAID 0. While I have seen hints this may be possible, I can find no guide or setup tips to make it happen, thus it appears this may be a task to steep for the ordinary or even experienced builder or maybe just not possible?

Thanks for all the replies thus far, certainly appreciate it!
 
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I cannot "see" the drives in the BIOS unless I force within the bios to use legacy boot option instead of UEFI. Thats when I actually see the intel Rom load a split second before the bios starts upon bootup. Basically, if I don't see that happen, I don't see the raid array in bios - which seems like a whole other problem because it appears you should be able to see RAID arrays when bios is set to UEFI? But I am not clear on how or when all the drivers get loaded for anything to see RAID
 
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That's a tough one. Normally if you were doing a regular windows install, you'd install the raid drivers during the installation process when you boot to the installation media (aka windows disk/usb). Then you would be able to see your nvme raid array. In your case, you sound like you want to use disk imaging software like acronis, however the problem lies in your drivers used on your sata III ssd that houses your operating system which would be ahci drivers. So lets say you get to the point where you've used acronis to transfer your existing install from the sata III ssd to the nvme array. After that's done and you go to restart your machine, you wouldn't be able to boot to windows because the nvme array would be missing the raid drivers. So the question is, is it possible to get the raid drivers installed into the acronis image for when you go to deploy it. For the sake of time and frustration, it would almost make better sense to do a clean install on the nvme array, then transfer your data over from the sata III ssd. I hope someone more knowledgeable can chime in on this post, as there has to be a way around that dilemma.
 
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With Acronis and some other backup solutions, I am afforded the opportunity to insert drivers into the image while deploying it. The challenge is that when I go to deploy, I don't see the nvme drives to deploy to..Now that I think about it though, I think there is 1 combo of settings that I have not tried - forced legacy bios and booting to recovery environment - I'll try that now! You think someone would have made an app to make all this easy by now.. I would have paid even more for that! :)
 
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Soooo, I gave up and just reinstalled Windows 10. What a bear this is! Making multi generational (SB to KL) leaps requiring new windows install sure does have it's disadvantages. Once I did this, the nvme raid shows up as a MS Windows UEFI Bootable drive in the bios as it's name... odd but whatever. Smoking fast, from bios screen to logged in - 5 seconds if I type fast :)

Thanks for all thoughts and ideas folks.
 
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