Hi to all.
System Configuration is as follows:
i7 7700K @5.1 GHz on ASUS Maximus extreme IX formula
64 GB of ripjaws RAM
ASUS Strix 1080
Seasonic PRIME 850 Watts PSU
Thermaltake core X9 case
Now comes the disks. I have one 5TB WD drive for data. One 512GB samsung 850 Pro SSD. And one 512GB sm961 (The oem version of the samsung 960 pro ) where windows 10 pro is installed.
What I thought would be a very straightforward process turned out to be otherwise. The minute I decided to add another sm961 pro into my mobo to create a RAID0 volume and migrate my windows installation into it, my nightmare started. I haven't experienced this boot problems in my entire 20 years life of building PC's. Here is what I did:
I installed Macrium Reflect in my windows drive and created an image of the whole OS drive and saved it externally somewhere. I then went into the UEFI BIOS ( I must say I hate this one, used to be much easier), changed the SATA mode from AHCI to RAID and created my ~1TB RAID0 volume. I then booted into my bootable Macrium reflect drive, located my saved image and started looking for my raid volume. Unfortunately, Reflect didn't detect my raid array. I went through some trouble to get it to see it (loading Intel rapid storage driver) and then did what's expected. Load the image into my newly created ~ 1TB raid volume, the thing which I thought everything will be fine after. BUT NO, the PC couldn't boot. Nothing I do would fix it. I understand having multiple drives could confuse things but the boot order should take care of this in the BIOS.
One thing I should mention is the stupid way they have now to create the RAID volume. I don't see an option for it in the advanced PCH menu. Maybe only after I disabled CSM and rebooting I was able to see something. But, even then I can't find it sometimes, to recreate or delete the raid volume. The only way to access it is the EZ tunning wizard!!! What?! Why!?
Before in normal BIOS I remember, you can freely switch back and forth very easily. You will lose your data. So, if you don't have data to lose then it is fine. I must be lost in the EFI and UEFI BIOS, CSM, and secure boot stuff. I think the problem resides here somewhere.
I also don't seem to be able to really break the raid array because when I change the mode and change back to RAID, I can still see the volume created....why? Anybody has this mobo and tried to run RAID0 with his M.2 drives? Please say yes.
Anyways, instead of booting into windows I get all kinds of BSOD:
-restart or advanced options (F8 and the rest)
-inaccessible boot device
-the PC couldn't start
-Run startup repair or troubleshoot using a device
....etc . Nothing helps of course
Note:
-I was once able to use my bootable windows 10 drive and install a fresh windows installation into the raid0 after the loading the raid driver. This should work but I don't want to go through the countless configurations and installations I did, plus I don't seem to be able to do it anymore because the windows bootable drive doesn't see the RAID volume. I don't know why.
- I can also install windows into one of the other drives and boot to it, but that's not what I want of course. When I do this, I can see the raid volume. I also tried loading the image to it from withing windows but it still didn't work.
Any tips, hints, comments, instructions, guides will be greatly appreciated. I'm really sorry of the language because I'm little mad at myself and at the UEFI BIOS.
I can provide more info if you want. Thanks.
System Configuration is as follows:
i7 7700K @5.1 GHz on ASUS Maximus extreme IX formula
64 GB of ripjaws RAM
ASUS Strix 1080
Seasonic PRIME 850 Watts PSU
Thermaltake core X9 case
Now comes the disks. I have one 5TB WD drive for data. One 512GB samsung 850 Pro SSD. And one 512GB sm961 (The oem version of the samsung 960 pro ) where windows 10 pro is installed.
What I thought would be a very straightforward process turned out to be otherwise. The minute I decided to add another sm961 pro into my mobo to create a RAID0 volume and migrate my windows installation into it, my nightmare started. I haven't experienced this boot problems in my entire 20 years life of building PC's. Here is what I did:
I installed Macrium Reflect in my windows drive and created an image of the whole OS drive and saved it externally somewhere. I then went into the UEFI BIOS ( I must say I hate this one, used to be much easier), changed the SATA mode from AHCI to RAID and created my ~1TB RAID0 volume. I then booted into my bootable Macrium reflect drive, located my saved image and started looking for my raid volume. Unfortunately, Reflect didn't detect my raid array. I went through some trouble to get it to see it (loading Intel rapid storage driver) and then did what's expected. Load the image into my newly created ~ 1TB raid volume, the thing which I thought everything will be fine after. BUT NO, the PC couldn't boot. Nothing I do would fix it. I understand having multiple drives could confuse things but the boot order should take care of this in the BIOS.
One thing I should mention is the stupid way they have now to create the RAID volume. I don't see an option for it in the advanced PCH menu. Maybe only after I disabled CSM and rebooting I was able to see something. But, even then I can't find it sometimes, to recreate or delete the raid volume. The only way to access it is the EZ tunning wizard!!! What?! Why!?
Before in normal BIOS I remember, you can freely switch back and forth very easily. You will lose your data. So, if you don't have data to lose then it is fine. I must be lost in the EFI and UEFI BIOS, CSM, and secure boot stuff. I think the problem resides here somewhere.
I also don't seem to be able to really break the raid array because when I change the mode and change back to RAID, I can still see the volume created....why? Anybody has this mobo and tried to run RAID0 with his M.2 drives? Please say yes.
Anyways, instead of booting into windows I get all kinds of BSOD:
-restart or advanced options (F8 and the rest)
-inaccessible boot device
-the PC couldn't start
-Run startup repair or troubleshoot using a device
....etc . Nothing helps of course
Note:
-I was once able to use my bootable windows 10 drive and install a fresh windows installation into the raid0 after the loading the raid driver. This should work but I don't want to go through the countless configurations and installations I did, plus I don't seem to be able to do it anymore because the windows bootable drive doesn't see the RAID volume. I don't know why.
- I can also install windows into one of the other drives and boot to it, but that's not what I want of course. When I do this, I can see the raid volume. I also tried loading the image to it from withing windows but it still didn't work.
Any tips, hints, comments, instructions, guides will be greatly appreciated. I'm really sorry of the language because I'm little mad at myself and at the UEFI BIOS.
I can provide more info if you want. Thanks.
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