X399 Taichi & RAID & Win10 Install

MisterJ wrote: JayB33, please post all your specifications as I have in my signature.  Tell us about your RAID to be.  My first thought is that the mirrored copy will not have the RAID drivers and it may not boot.  How  is a mirrored drive restored?  I need to understand much more about your setup and intentions.  Enjoy, John.

I was hoping there might be a way to enable RAID or some other motherboard setting even though Windows is only installed on 1 NVMe drive and then get the driver installed somehow in Windows, then create a mirror and restore it when the array has been created. Maybe there's a way to force the driver to install before it is even used. My hardware is similar to yours, except I have 2x 960 pro (or three when my third NVMe standoff bolt arrives it wasn't in the box) but at the moment RAID isn't turned on and Windows 10 is installed on a single drive.

Maybe I'll just have to set up Windows 10 yet again. Bit frustrating when all that's missing is a small driver.

My specs are:

ThermalTake View 71 TG RGB Case
Seasonic Prime Titanium 850W Power Supply Unit
ASRock X399 Fatal1ty Professional Gaming Motherboard
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X CPU
nVidia GeForce GTX 1080 GPU
TXD416G3600HC18ADC01 - 4x RAM Modules
Samsung 960 Pro - 3x 512 GB NVMe Drives
Samsung 950 Pro - 512 GB SSD
Samsung 940 Pro - 256 GB SSD
Crucial M4 - 256 GB SSD
XSPC Raystorm Neo (AMD sTR4) Chrome CPU Waterblock
AquaComputer Kryographics 1080 Nickel GPU Waterblock
Hardware Labs Black Ice Nemesis GTS 420 Radiator
Noctua NF-A14 IndustrialPPC 2000 RPM IP67 PWM 140mm - 3x Radiator Fans
ThermalTake Riing 14 RGB - 3x Case Fans
XSPC Photon D5 270 Reservoir
AquaComputer D5 Pump Motor
AquaComputer Aquaero 6 LT Fan Controller
Mayhems XT-1 UV Green Coolant
Mayhems Ultra Clear 16 / 10 Tubing
Bitspower Black Sparkle 16 / 10 Fittings
EK-AF Black Nickel 10MM Ball Valve
Schiit Audio Modi DAC
Schiit Audio Magni Headphone Amplifier
Schiit Audio Loki Hardware Equalizer
Beyerdynamic DT 880 Pro Headphones
Dali Zensor 1 Speakers
Amptastic Mini 1 Speaker Amplifier
Atacama SL600 Speaker Stands
Steelseries Rival 300 Mouse
Steelseries Dex Mouse Mat

I already did ask ASRock tech support for an m.2 standoff bolt (not a screw, I have all the screws) that's why there's one on the way and I currently haven't set up a RAID array.

In Macrium Reflect you create a Windows PE Rescue Environment Boot USB stick and are able to view / update drivers to be loaded onto that (so that the mirror software can see the RAID drives in order to restore onto them)











So in theory all I have to do is create any RAID out of any drives I'm not booting Windows from, just to get the "driver is not installed" exclamation mark to show up. Then I install the driver in Windows and create the Rescue Media.


Edited by JayB33 - 24 Dec 2017 at 12:23pm

The only problem is that one of the drives I want to RAID has Windows currently installed on it. :P So I'll have to create a RAID with 2 of the drives that don't have anything on just so that I can hopefully install the drivers.


Edited by JayB33 - 25 Dec 2017 at 9:26am

But if I delete it then I can't make a clone of it with the raid drivers on. ;)

If I clone it before I've created the array then the Raid won't show up in Device manager for driver installation. I'm sure you see my predicament.


Edited by JayB33 - 26 Dec 2017 at 1:17am

Sorry for the offtopic, I just couldn't resist!

I love how Jay even posted the friggin mousepad model.

Now, don't get me wrong, I'm NOT jelly! On the contrary, I'm really happy that someone put that much effort and funds into such a beast. Hope Jay has tons of joy working with it! I know I would!

Carry on with the troubleshooting.