ssds not working after enabling raid 0

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I was trying to enable raid 0 on my two 500Gb ssds to make them my boot drive. I went through windows 10 and formatted them and put them in raid. When I went to install Windows 10 on them with a thumb drive, after the initial install when it reboots, my computer was unable to boot to the raid. The bios saw it as the two separate drives, so I enabled raid and set them up in the bios. When I did this and tried to install Windows again. they appeared as a normal 500Gb ssd and the 928Gb raid but as just a normal drive. Windows doesn't seem to see it as an ssd where you partition it, but everywhere else sees it as the 500Gb ssd. Windows thinks it's 928Gb and won't let me format it or anything. I would like to at least be able to use the two drives separately again. The bios just keeps saying I have to enable raid when I go into the ex raid option. When I tell it to it just keeps rebooting in a loop of telling me it is enabling raid so I can't tell it to undo the raid. My mother board is a Gigabyte Z170x Ultra Gaming and the two ssds are 500Gb samsung Sata.
 
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how did you do that? I mean enabling rst back? is it rapid storage or rapid start?
 

RealBeast

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Using SSDs in motherboard RAID is not recommended. You will not see any real world performance improvement (only improved benchmark numbers that do not correlate to actual use) and any bios update or hiccup can break the array requiring a fresh install.

I would clean the drives with diskpart commands in an elevated command prompt (you can do this using the W10 installer and selecting command prompt), or a similar process. If you want to use diskpart please advise and I will list the commands, which are quite simple.

 
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