RAID 5 storage after OS installed on M.2 [SOLVED]

shadetree1 wrote: Hello people, My question, Is it possible to install the AMD RAID drivers on a allready installed M.2 booting OS, then set up UEFI RAID for the SATA storage drives without reinstalling the OS? I can not find any information regarding this topic and perhaps this AMD motherboard combination system is a bit too new.  I have a recently upgraded my old HTPC with the 970A-G3.1 motherboard running Windows 7x64 on the M.2 NVME drive.  The BD is on a PCIe SATA3 adapter leaving all 6 native SATA3 ports for internal storage.  The system and apps are all installed and configured working brilliantly.  As it turned out, unintentionally, to be the most rock solid and fastest PC I have, so really not wanting to reinstall Windows and everything as it's busy 24/7.  I know RAID is a strait setup during installing an OS using the motherboard controller, but I didn't think it would matter since I'm not using SATA3 for a OS boot drive.  My plan was to setup the storage drives later after installing the OS to the M.2. Thank You for any information!

I must ask first, you installed Windows 7 on an NVMe M.2 SSD. That can be a bit of a trick with Win 7. You had to install an NVMe driver during the installation. Are you using a Samsung 950 Pro?

You lost me on this statement: "The BD is on a PCIe SATA3 adapter..."   Is that a Bluray optical disk on SATA adapter card? Not sure why that matters regarding your question about RAID.

My question to you is, what is the SATA mode set to now, when you installed Win 7?

If you did not set it to RAID mode, then you might have a problem. Changing to RAID mode after the OS installation can be a pain. It can be done on Intel systems with some work, but an AMD system may be another story.

If you simply change the SATA mode to RAID now, normally the PC won't boot. Windows does not know to load the RAID driver. Installing the RAID driver first does not help, it's there but Windows does not know enough to load it. Registry entries are the problem.

Do you have the ASRock APP Shop program installed? It is on your boards Win 7 download page. Download and install it, run it and look for the Rapid SATA Switch App. It is available for Intel boards, not certain about AMD.

If it is there, download it, which will also install it, then run it. Select RAID of course, and when done, immediately restart the PC into the UEFI/BIOS. Change the SATA mode to RAID, and be sure to maintain it as RAID. A UEFI/BIOS clear or update will set it to the default, AHCI. Save and exit and the PC should boot fine.

No other reason why you cannot use RAID. Install the AMD RAID utility, and have at it.

If that program is not available in APP Shop, and you need to change to RAID mode, start searching the Internet for that procedure. I don't know how to do it for AMD manually. Otherwise, another OS installation with the SATA mode set to RAID is in your future...

I just installed the ASrock APP shop but no Rapid SATA Switch like intel has or any other utilities to configure storage other than the AMD RAID setup.