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Hello,
After reinstalling win 10 home I am unable to access my raid 0 drive that i made with my last installation. I know that the drive is still viable because it can be accessed with a windows 8 i installed on a thumb drive. please help.
 
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I finally fixed it. I use a sata card to increase my hard drive capacity. I did not think the raid drive was connected through that but it was. I properly installed the intel raid drivers by rebooting windows in safe mode and installing them there. After moving my raid drives cables back to my motherboard I used the IRST utility before boot to make a new raid drive after backing up any data I needed on the raid drive with my USB windows 8. now everything's hunky dorey and this raid drive should survive a windows reinstall.
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i do not receive any error message. the drive simply doesn't appear in my computer or disk manager. The raid is sofftware raid made up of 2 samsung 840 EVO 500gb that show up in device manager, and the drivers are up to date according to windows. I have installed the intel raid drivers for my motherboard although that was not done with the win 8 on the thumb drive. windows itself is installed on a separate SSD. I am not sure I understand the last question.
 
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My thought was that there could be just some configuration error in the drive/partition designations.

However, I did some goggling using "how does a RAID appear in Disk Management".

I (full disclosure) do not have a RAID in place and was wondering about what should be seen..."

Found this link within this forum:

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3142415/find-raid-windows-disk-management.html

Found other similar links as well. Just scroll down to the list below the referenced post.

What utility software are you using to establish the RAID?

Take a closer look at the Windows 8 and Windows 10 configuration settings. Compare as best you can.

May just be some setting that was overlooked, misconfigured, or did not appear relevant to begin with....
 
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toeachthierown

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yes. when in bios the drives in raid have aos02 and aos03 before there name

Update: I tried reinstalling the sata/raid and chipset drivers but win 10 still won't see my raid drive
 
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There has been an interesting turn of events. After backing up the file necessary files from my raid in preparation for redoing the raid drive entirely i took a look in my bios. i discovered a toggle for intel rapid storage technology that woule enable/disable it. I then enabled it and was unable to boot to windows, only after disabling it again was i able to boot. could someone shed some light on this?

I am currently looking at a new way to make a raid drive and thinking about a hardware raid drive that could survive windows installed and maybe even changes of motherboards.
 
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the new os was installed on the same ssd as the old one and was never unplugged from the motherboard. my mothorboard is a asus z97 sabertooth mk2. https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/SABERTOOTH_Z97_MARK_2USB_31/HelpDesk_Download/
 
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toeachthierown

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I finally fixed it. I use a sata card to increase my hard drive capacity. I did not think the raid drive was connected through that but it was. I properly installed the intel raid drivers by rebooting windows in safe mode and installing them there. After moving my raid drives cables back to my motherboard I used the IRST utility before boot to make a new raid drive after backing up any data I needed on the raid drive with my USB windows 8. now everything's hunky dorey and this raid drive should survive a windows reinstall.
 
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