Windows 10: I have 2Tb ssd with windows 11, two 4TB HDD which is Raid. I'm trying to run new windows...

I have 2Tb ssd with windows 11, two 4TB HDD which is Raid. I'm trying to run new windows and I'm stacked on "New media your drive need is missing..."I have tried loading IRST but still not working. My system is: Prime Z790-p WiFi Asus. 13th gen, i9. Digital Storm Workstation. I have all my files on the HDD and can't loose it or else I'm dead. I'm not a Tech guy please any help

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Windows 11 says my 2 HDDs is raid are offline when I plug in nvme SSD.

Hello all,

I am having a problem where as soon as I plug in my new NVME SSD I got a (crucial P3 Plus 500gb) my 2 4tb hard drives in a raid say they are offline and failed. Plus Windows 11 does not detect them anymore. As soon as I unplug the SSD and restart the HDDs show up in explorer and the raidxpert2 software shows they are online and working.

PC SPECS:

Asus rog strix B550-f Gaming Wifi (first gen)

AMD ryzen 5600 CPU

Intel arc a750

32gb of 3200mhz silicon power

Saberent 1tb gen4 (main drive that windows is installed on)

2x 4tb HDD in AMD hardware raid

(the new drive) crucial P3 Plus 500gb

 

Windows 10 / Raid 1: "Optimize" shows HDD, NOT installed SSD's

I HAVE NOT RECEIVED A COMPLETE ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION: PLEASE, HELP!

In my new Windows 10 desktop computer, (RAID 1, Two SSD's), I see Optimize shows "Hard Disk Drive", NOT "SSD", and I want to be sure defragmentation is not applied to these drives, instead of the proper TRIM utility. What need I do? I found a reply for
this regarding Windows 8, but not sure how to proceed in Windows 10:



"Created on October 30, 2013

SSDs Showing up as HDD in system - Windows 8.1 GA/RTM

I had this issue during the preview and it appears to happen again in the final version of 8.1 as well.



Somehow the system is incorrectly registering my 2x RAID SDDs as HDDs, which thus during the weekly "Optimization" runs a defragmentation on them instead correctly running TRIM instead. Which is quite frustrating to see it's still in the final product.



In my preview thread the suggestion to fix this was to run WinSAT (Windows System Assessment Tool) from Powershell. It worked during the preview to correctly identify my SSDs and it appears to work in the final version as well.



The description on how to run it from my previous thread:



"Usually the detection of SSDs can be forced by running the Windows Experience Index (= WEI, file name: WINSAT.EXE).



You may have to run Windows Experience Index to force windows to detect RAID SSD in Windows 8.1.2013



Follow these steps:

a. Press “Windows key + W” from the keyboard.

b. Type “Administrative tools” without quotes in the search box.

c. Select “Administrative tools” option from the list.

d. Then right click on “Windows PowerShell ISE” and select “Run as Administrator” option.

e. Type “WinSAT diskformal” without quotes in the PowerShell and hit Enter.

“Win8.1 Preview - Manual execution of the Windows Experience Index.png - Bild entfernt (keine Rechte)”.

f. Close “Windows PowerShell” and run Windows Optimization.

g. This should detect “RAID configured SSD on Windows 8.1."



I highly suggest if you have SSDs, especially in RAID, that you check the Optimize Drives interface to see if it's correctly identifying your drives and if it isn't to run WinSAT diskformal from PowerShell."

In reply to Sumit (Independent Advisor)'s post on January 5, 2020

How can I verify/be certain? In the Windows 8 advice, copied from the Microsoft Community, you see there can be an issue especially in RAID (1) configuration, where the hard drive(s) are not recognized as SSD, and a corrective procedure is given (for Windows
8, but I have Windows 10). Is there some equivalent method to confirm my SSD's are receiving TRIM, not Defragment? I ran "optimize" manually, and to my eyes, the process looked exactly like the "defragment" I've run for years on my old, Windows 7 with HDD.
As you see, I want to exercise extreme caution in protecting these 2, extremely expensive 2TB SSD's.

• Independent Advisor

I agree to a certain extent about RAID that the things are unclear(I have to ask that to TPTB) but for normal configs please see this article from a Microsoft Employee.

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/TheRealAndComple...

In reply to Sumit (Independent Advisor)'s post on January 6, 2020

I did read the article you referenced. While I am not a very technical person, I can see my issue is different than the issue addressed in that article. The article revolves around how Windows treats, maintains a SSD, and in the example "optimize window"
the drive is clearly called "SSD" by Windows. IN MY OPTIMIZER, the drive is called "Hard Drive", and this is the first basis of my concern that the drive is not being maintained as a SSD.

I very much appreciate your offer to further investigate. Again, please note my system is RAID 1, with (2) mirrored, 2TB SSD's, "hardware based RAID" with the controller on the motherboard. I will await further information. Again, my issue/concern is
not so much how Windows maintains an SSD, rather whether Windows sees my array AS SSD.

 

Windows 11 doesn't boot after enabling RAID on BIOS

I have a new system that came with a single M.2 drive. I installed Windows 11 on it - everything was working fine. I figured I'd install Office and all of my other apps and only later move the drives from my old system to the new one.

After a couple of days, when the OS was ready, I moved all of the drives into the new system. Here's a list of drives (in addition to the preinstalled M.2 drive that runs the OS):

1x WD 3TB HDD

1x WD 1TB HDD

1x Samsung 1TB SSD

2x WD 2TB HDDs - Mirrored to each other using RAID1

After physically moving the drives, I enabled RAID in the BIOS (which immediately recognized the RAID1 configuration on the 2 relevant drives).

Since then Windows won't boot with the RAID turned on in BIOS (I get a bluescreen with an error message about an inaccessible boot device).

If I turn off the RAID setting in BIOS, windows boots up normally, but shows me 2 drive that contain the same information (my RAID1 drives) - so I lose the RAID functionality.

I tried reinstalling windows with the RAID setting turned on in BIOS, but when setup asks me which drive to install windows to, only 2 drives appear: the Samsung SSD and the 1TB HDD. All other drives (M.2, both RAID drives and 3TB HDD) don't appear at all in the list of possible target drives for the installation.

I really don't want to lose my RAID setup - it's used to increase safety of priceless family pictures and other sensitive, irreplaceable data...

Any ideas how to solve this would be greatly appreciated...