Stuck in RAID

Depthcharger04 · Jun 10, 2017

Hi

I have a Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD4H(Windows 7). What happend was i have set up Intel Rapid storage technology long time ago! IT was running fine for a long time until today there was an error when i was virus scanning(what i do every month) i wake up to see a BSOD and intel rapid storage technology was the culprit. i uninstalled it. but i cannot get my bios to set to AHCI mode again if i did the windows loading screen would crash so if it were set on RAID it works fine. I looked at boot options my HDD was not detected nor the SSD(which i use only for the intel rapid storage technology) Only things it was detecting was the optical drive and some sata driver which seems to be on of my HDD but not really i dunno why. If i load up in raid i have no problem loading in to everything. but its just that i am not running on raid at all and it has a slow boot. I have removed all raid volumes uninstalled storage drivers and reinstalled them. reset CMOS and took out the battery and even unplugging and re plugging the sata cables but still it would not let go of RAID so im stuck with it instead of AHCI which now i want. I think my SSD died because in windows its not detecting only my HDD drives. computer runs fine so far... just i dont like it stuck on raid when there is none thats setup. i even uninstalled Intel rapid storage technology and got the latest drivers for everything in my motherboard. i think because its my SSD that died but i dont understand why it the bios would not detect the other HDD drives. Windows it showing it but bios is not. Please help me fix this problem and thanks!

Seanie280672 · Jun 10, 2017

Depthcharger04 :

Hi

I have a Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD4H(Windows 7). What happend was i have set up Intel Rapid storage technology long time ago! IT was running fine for a long time until today there was an error when i was virus scanning(what i do every month) i wake up to see a BSOD and intel rapid storage technology was the culprit. i uninstalled it. but i cannot get my bios to set to AHCI mode again if i did the windows loading screen would crash so if it were set on RAID it works fine. I looked at boot options my HDD was not detected nor the SSD(which i use only for the intel rapid storage technology) Only things it was detecting was the optical drive and some sata driver which seems to be on of my HDD but not really i dunno why. If i load up in raid i have no problem loading in to everything. but its just that i am not running on raid at all and it has a slow boot. I have removed all raid volumes uninstalled storage drivers and reinstalled them. reset CMOS and took out the battery and even unplugging and re plugging the sata cables but still it would not let go of RAID so im stuck with it instead of AHCI which now i want. I think my SSD died because in windows its not detecting only my HDD drives. computer runs fine so far... just i dont like it stuck on raid when there is none thats setup. i even uninstalled Intel rapid storage technology and got the latest drivers for everything in my motherboard. i think because its my SSD that died but i dont understand why it the bios would not detect the other HDD drives. Windows it showing it but bios is not. Please help me fix this problem and thanks!

You cant just change from a RAID config to an AHCI config, you need to set ACHI in the bios wipe the drives and then reinstall Windows, and the reason your drives are not being detected is they still contain the RAID configuration data on them and with RAID disabled, they cant be read, and need to be wiped, if you have important data on them, back it up first.

Depthcharger04 · Jun 11, 2017

i did set ACHI mode in bios but then windows would load and crash. only as in RAID mode it will boot in straight to windows normally. Again this was Intel Rapid storage technology setup. How do I get rid of the raid setup show me set by step with full details. I did do the remove RAID disk volume but its still there. and how can i wipe my SSD if it cannot be detected? not even in windows the SSD can be detected. only the HDD in windows but not in bios

Seanie280672 :

Depthcharger04 :

You cant just change from a RAID config to an AHCI config, you need to set ACHI in the bios wipe the drives and then reinstall Windows, and the reason your drives are not being detected is they still contain the RAID configuration data on them and with RAID disabled, they cant be read, and need to be wiped, if you have important data on them, back it up first.

Seanie280672 · Jun 11, 2017

Depthcharger04 :

i did set ACHI mode in bios but then windows would load and crash. only as in RAID mode it will boot in straight to windows normally. Again this was Intel Rapid storage technology setup. How do I get rid of the raid setup show me set by step with full details. I did do the remove RAID disk volume but its still there. and how can i wipe my SSD if it cannot be detected? not even in windows the SSD can be detected. only the HDD in windows but not in bios

Seanie280672 :

First of all, is Windows installed on your RAID ? the raid configuration data is still on the drives, even when you switch to ahci, its still there, you need to re-install windows under the new configuration.

after the bios loads, you'll get a RAID menu appear, its control + J or Control + I something like that to enter it, go in there and delete the RAID setup, BE AWARE THIS WILL DELETE ALL DATA ON THE DRIVES. no windows, nothing.

Now boot to the bios and set RAID to AHCI, save and exit but reboot back to the bios, it should now see your drives.

You will now need to re-install windows as your drives are empty, for that you will need windows on a DVD or USB.

Depthcharger04 · Jun 11, 2017

Seanie280672 :

Depthcharger04 :

First of all, is Windows installed on your RAID ? the raid configuration data is still on the drives, even when you switch to ahci, its still there, you need to re-install windows under the new configuration.

after the bios loads, you'll get a RAID menu appear, its control + J or Control + I something like that to enter it, go in there and delete the RAID setup, BE AWARE THIS WILL DELETE ALL DATA ON THE DRIVES. no windows, nothing.

Now boot to the bios and set RAID to AHCI, save and exit but reboot back to the bios, it should now see your drives.

You will now need to re-install windows as your drives are empty, for that you will need windows on a DVD or USB.

yes it is and yes i saw the raid menu button was ctrl i which i press. only options available were create new raid volume and exit. I couldnt select delete raid volume.
also whats strange to me is that my other HDD drive which i only use for storage like videos and picture is also not showing up and it wasnt even set up as raid at all only my main C drive was main and was on raid/intel rapid storage technology. also my main C drive is 2tb and the storage is 1tb so there wold be no way for it to be set as raid.
u think my motherboard sata port maybe strangely faulty? cant be since windows wouldn't be able to detect it. must be the bios itself? again i could still go in my pc and log in to windows everything working fine expect for the ssd which cannot be detected at all which i can assume it died since IRST did detect something wrong with it

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