https://forum.asrock.com/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Sat, 18 Apr 2026 23:51:43 +0000 Mon, 20 Sep 2021 07:43:57 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.04 360 https://forum.asrock.com/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=19195 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_images/web_wiz_forums_black.png https://forum.asrock.com/ https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=19195&PID=90302&title=x570-taichi-windows-10-shows-no-drives#90302 Author: ThreeDee
Subject: 19195
Posted: 20 Sep 2021 at 7:43am

AtomicPlayboy wrote: I found this thread hunting for an issue with my system and to see if later BIOS releases fixed it. My system was one of the original ones built, as such I have upgraded through every BIOS revision for the X570 TaiChi that has every been released. When I went form 3.8 to 4.0, I lost all my hard drives. I played with enabling and disabling resizable bar and the like, but I could find no setting configuration that would bring back my NVME drives with BIOS 4.0 As such I made notes in my logs and reverted back to version 3.8. I believe BIOS 4.2 had a note on it that you would not be able to revert back if you installed that version. Accordingly before I move forward I'm looking for someone who has had this issue and solved it with the 4.XX series of BIOS. I want to avoid installing a BIOS version that disables my HD's to further be unable to roll back the BIOS to the last know good BIOS 3.8. TLDR; Install BIOS 3.8 and I would expect you will be able to see your HD's again.

what are your PC specs? CPU?. NVME drives? Memory? GPU? PSU?

Edited by ThreeDee - 20 Sep 2021 at 7:44am]]> Mon, 20 Sep 2021 07:43:57 +0000 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=19195&PID=90302&title=x570-taichi-windows-10-shows-no-drives#90302 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=19195&PID=90296&title=x570-taichi-windows-10-shows-no-drives#90296 Author: AtomicPlayboy
Subject: 19195
Posted: 20 Sep 2021 at 12:24am

I found this thread hunting for an issue with my system and to see if later BIOS releases fixed it.

My system was one of the original ones built, as such I have upgraded through every BIOS revision for the X570 TaiChi that has every been released. When I went form 3.8 to 4.0, I lost all my hard drives. I played with enabling and disabling resizable bar and the like, but I could find no setting configuration that would bring back my NVME drives with BIOS 4.0 As such I made notes in my logs and reverted back to version 3.8.

I believe BIOS 4.2 had a note on it that you would not be able to revert back if you installed that version. Accordingly before I move forward I'm looking for someone who has had this issue and solved it with the 4.XX series of BIOS. I want to avoid installing a BIOS version that disables my HD's to further be unable to roll back the BIOS to the last know good BIOS 3.8.

TLDR; Install BIOS 3.8 and I would expect you will be able to see your HD's again.]]> Mon, 20 Sep 2021 00:24:14 +0000 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=19195&PID=90296&title=x570-taichi-windows-10-shows-no-drives#90296 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=19195&PID=89167&title=x570-taichi-windows-10-shows-no-drives#89167 Author: comfix
Subject: 19195
Posted: 06 Jul 2021 at 4:56pm

Okay I got some news, I re-imaged my USB with a newly downloaded ISO and that did work. It recognized the drives and installed fine until the reboot. After that it just froze at "Getting devices ready: 89%" and the rebooted again, with it now being stuck in a boot loop. This was solved by disabling all devices on the mainboard (Wifi/Ethernet/HD Audio). Windows then errored out saying the installation was not successful and I should try it again, which I did. This time it worked.

I installed all drivers from the ASRock Support page (Intel Wifi, Chipset, HD Audio) but when I tried intalling the LAN driver it couldnt find the ethernet controller (which is expected).

I went ahead and enabled Ethernet again which resulted in a boot loop again. With enabling Wifi this does not happen. With both being enabled Windows was booting successful again but did not show me any Ethernet controllers except the Bluetooth one.

Now I tried installing LAN drivers but this time while trying to start the installation stating "Please wait" my computer just freezes up and reboots after about 30 seconds. This is reproducible however.

For now I am going to contact official support and my reseller. If you guys have any clue whats maybe going on let me know.]]> Tue, 06 Jul 2021 16:56:40 +0000 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=19195&PID=89167&title=x570-taichi-windows-10-shows-no-drives#89167 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=19195&PID=89143&title=x570-taichi-windows-10-shows-no-drives#89143 Author: RLGL
Subject: 19195
Posted: 05 Jul 2021 at 9:49pm

comfix wrote: As far as I know this isn't true because windows reads/writes block devices. How should it prepare a disk initially then when its fresh out of the factory if it is true what you are saying? There is no partitioning scheme on a new disk. And in fact I used spare disk [with ext4 on them / previously dd'ed with zeros] and just reformatted them using the installer on numerous other machines.

Writing zeros to a disk and formatting are two different things. If you are using Windows to format, one does not need to initialize it. This is how they come "out of the box".
To write zeros to a disk, one must use diskpart, a utility that is run from the command line. This will leave the disk "clean" and without a file structure.
]]> Mon, 05 Jul 2021 21:49:21 +0000 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=19195&PID=89143&title=x570-taichi-windows-10-shows-no-drives#89143 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=19195&PID=89120&title=x570-taichi-windows-10-shows-no-drives#89120 Author: comfix
Subject: 19195
Posted: 05 Jul 2021 at 2:42am

RLGL wrote: Windows does not need drivers to install.

As in a previous reply stated, I am aware of this. Normally the installer should bring generic drivers for everything.

RLGL wrote: If zeros are written to the disk it must be initialized for Windows to see it.

As far as I know this isn't true because windows reads/writes block devices.
How should it prepare a disk initially then when its fresh out of the factory if it is true what you are saying? There is no partitioning scheme on a new disk. And in fact I used spare disk [with ext4 on them / previously dd'ed with zeros] and just reformatted them using the installer on numerous other machines.

datonyb wrote: this is not something silly like windows thinks you want to install the disks in raid so wants the raid driver is it ?

I did not configure any RAID in BIOS (just double checked, there is none).
The RAID driver is an optional one on the disk. I tried loading in in hope of it working but it didnt.

datonyb wrote: OTHER THAN THAT ID SUGGEST MAKING A NEW WIN10 MEDIA CREATION TOOL USB

Cant do this. I have no working Win10 machine at the moment, the old one died unfortunately. I've downloaded and written the ISO from Microsoft's download page, this should be fairly identical in results ignoring the WIM/ESD thing.]]> Mon, 05 Jul 2021 02:42:54 +0000 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=19195&PID=89120&title=x570-taichi-windows-10-shows-no-drives#89120 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=19195&PID=89114&title=x570-taichi-windows-10-shows-no-drives#89114 Author: datonyb
Subject: 19195
Posted: 04 Jul 2021 at 11:52pm

this is not something silly like
windows thinks you want to install the disks in raid
so wants the raid driver is it ?

OTHER THAN THAT ID SUGGEST MAKING A NEW WIN10 MEDIA CREATION TOOL USB]]> Sun, 04 Jul 2021 23:52:52 +0000 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=19195&PID=89114&title=x570-taichi-windows-10-shows-no-drives#89114 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=19195&PID=89111&title=x570-taichi-windows-10-shows-no-drives#89111 Author: RLGL
Subject: 19195
Posted: 04 Jul 2021 at 9:29pm

Windows does not need drivers to install. If zeros are written to the disk it must be initialized for Windows to see it.]]> Sun, 04 Jul 2021 21:29:41 +0000 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=19195&PID=89111&title=x570-taichi-windows-10-shows-no-drives#89111 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=19195&PID=89110&title=x570-taichi-windows-10-shows-no-drives#89110 Author: comfix
Subject: 19195
Posted: 04 Jul 2021 at 8:58pm

As the other image is not working, here the same picture:

]]> Sun, 04 Jul 2021 20:58:30 +0000 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=19195&PID=89110&title=x570-taichi-windows-10-shows-no-drives#89110 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=19195&PID=89109&title=x570-taichi-windows-10-shows-no-drives#89109 Author: comfix
Subject: 19195
Posted: 04 Jul 2021 at 8:55pm

ThreeDee wrote: you don't need a SATA driver apart from what windows provides .. how are the drives formatted?

Yeah that is exactly what I would think, but you never know.
Normally it should not matter which formatting has been done previously.
But to be thorough, there was a normal Windows install on it. I killed the disk header by dd'ing the first 8MBs, but that did not help.
The NVMe has a GPT with Arch on it.
The third SSD is completely blank at the moment (dd'ed it with zeros completely)

ThreeDee wrote: Do you see the drives in the disk management tool?

I dont know wthat exactly you mean by "disk management tool".
All those drives are confirmed working.
I rebooted to BIOS and made sure every drive shows up in the Security section as well as Tools -> SSD Cleaning tool (or whatever its called)

When I boot a Windows installation media, I am greeted with this message box after clicking on "Install now":


If I cancel this dialog and hit rescan, it errors out with "No drives found"]]> Sun, 04 Jul 2021 20:55:37 +0000 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=19195&PID=89109&title=x570-taichi-windows-10-shows-no-drives#89109 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=19195&PID=89108&title=x570-taichi-windows-10-shows-no-drives#89108 Author: ThreeDee
Subject: 19195
Posted: 04 Jul 2021 at 8:20pm

you don't need a SATA driver apart from what windows provides .. how are the drives formatted?

Do you see the drives in the disk management tool?]]> Sun, 04 Jul 2021 20:20:59 +0000 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=19195&PID=89108&title=x570-taichi-windows-10-shows-no-drives#89108