Hi, Gigabyte tweaktown forum! Been stalking on here for a bit and have an issue I hope the community can help me tackle. Thanks in advance for your help.
I have Windows 10 booting on my M.2 drive and I can configure the three identical WD HDDs as three separate drives, no problem. I want to configure the HDDs in RAID 5. When I go into the BIOS, I make the change in the SATA configuration to RAID, create the array and name, all goes well. When I restart, I get a Windows error that it could not find a bootable drive (weird, it displays a Windows error, it had to come from somewhere, right?). So I go back to BIOS and change back to AHCI WITHOUT deleting the RAID array, and I boot into Windows just fine. Now I go to initialize the drives, and there is only one drive available in the same size as the RAID array! Weird. But now Intel Rapid Storage application is reporting errors; of course it won't tell me the errors, brilliant.
This doesn't sound like a reliable way to leave my setup in a production environment. Any help on getting my RAID array working properly? HDDs are plugged into SATA ports 0, 1, 4. I can take screenshots if need be. Thanks for your comments!
curt
I have Windows 10 booting on my M.2 drive and I can configure the three identical WD HDDs as three separate drives, no problem. I want to configure the HDDs in RAID 5. When I go into the BIOS, I make the change in the SATA configuration to RAID, create the array and name, all goes well. When I restart, I get a Windows error that it could not find a bootable drive (weird, it displays a Windows error, it had to come from somewhere, right?). So I go back to BIOS and change back to AHCI WITHOUT deleting the RAID array, and I boot into Windows just fine. Now I go to initialize the drives, and there is only one drive available in the same size as the RAID array! Weird. But now Intel Rapid Storage application is reporting errors; of course it won't tell me the errors, brilliant.
This doesn't sound like a reliable way to leave my setup in a production environment. Any help on getting my RAID array working properly? HDDs are plugged into SATA ports 0, 1, 4. I can take screenshots if need be. Thanks for your comments!
curt
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