Windows 10: Challenge with "mysteriously disappearing NVME SSD unable to contain restored data to its disk"

For many weeks, an NVME onboard motherboard SSD as set to GPT and having data restored from the backup, have "seen" its data "disappear" from the NVME SSD. In 2411231 on the left, in this example, under Microsoft's Disk Management Service Program, the SSD is set to conversion to GPT. The example observed've seen a repetition of this feature "flaw" attempted for GPT conversion each time the data "disappears". On the right of the example using Easeus Partition Manager, the disk as previously set to GPT has appeared seen to've "been set" as MBR.NVME SSD's do not normally operate under "an MBR

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RSTe Not Recognizing NVME SSDs

Good day all! This is my first post here so I'll tag the intro on top. I'm Matthew Bourguignon. I own a small computer biz in Auburn, Alabama called BourgTech. I started doing business in 2011 in Daytona Beach, Florida. I've been tinkering with computers
since I was 10 and I built my first computer when I was 16, while laid up due to ACL surgery. I've been Googling my backside off trying to find an answer to this particular problem so I'm hoping y'all can help me. I use the Gigabyte C246/C246m boards as the
platform for my SMB server build. I've recently started tweaking the design with my test bench unit, using 2x 256GB Kingston NVME SSDs for OS install and tiered storage cache in MS Storage Spaces. I'd been hoping to use the Intel RSTe RAID function to provision
30% of the two SSDs together to create a 76.8GB RAID1 array for OS installation, with the remaining capacity passed-through to the operating system, allowing Windows to see that space as available for use in a Storage Pool. However, I never made it that far,
because... Intel RSTe does not show the SSDs in the "Create RAID" menu. The two PCIe channels DO appear in the Intel RSTe setup menu in the UEFI, and when I assign those channels to Intel RSTe, the Kingston NVMEs disappear from the UEFI's NVME options menu,
indicating the Intel RSTe controller has grabbed the NVME drives, but after that they totally ghost. They don't show in the RAID Disks, Non-RAID Disks, or Create RAID menus in UEFI. If I try reverting to the old RSTe oROM, they don't show up there either.
The NVMEs just straight-up G H O S T. �‍♂️ (Hope you don't mind some Emoji; I try to have fun with the challenges I face.) Now here's the twist! If I switch the RSTe Mode to Disable, which changes the operating mode from RSTe to RST (switching from enterprise
to consumer), suddenly the NVME drives appear in the UEFI menu. I can RAID the NVME SSDs in this config. I thought about leaving the system configured this way but alas, if I provision only 30% of the two SSDs into a single RAID1, the remaining capacity simply
disappears. I need that extra capacity to pass through to Windows, which I thought was a function of RSTe. My goal here is to establish the OS install on a small NVME RAID1 array, providing operational redundancy to avoid downtime, while passing the remaining
percentage along to Storage Spaces to act as cache for the server's 4TB of slower, whirly disk capacity. I've tried doing this at a software level by mirroring the OS install across two NVME disks, but then the remaining capacity of each NVME disk disappears
from the Storage Pool. It looks like MS configured Windows not to allow use of Dynamic Disk capacity in a Storage Spaces pool. That means my only shot at demoing this config is by deploying RAID1 at a hardware level for 30% of the NVME SSD cap, and then allowing
the remaining 70% cap to pass through to Windows. If anyone can help me determine why the NVME SSDs don't even appear in Intel RSTe, I would appreciate it! MB

 

How can I change the disk number of NVME SSD (Boot) to DISK-0 in Disk Management in Windows 11?

HI,

I have my OS installed on NVME SSD (physically installed on motherboard) and other drives are connected using SATA cables. But for some reason, the boot drive (NVME SSD) always shows DISK 5 (Last Disk) in disk management.

So far on the forums, people suggest to switch ports but I have only one NVME SSD port on my motherboard.

Also, I tried to boot pc just with boot drive and disconnected all other drive. Then it showed my boot drive as DISK 0 but as soon as I connect other drives, it again goes to last.

What should I do?

 

How do I change the NVMe SSD to Disk 0 and HDD to Disk 1. Whether it will creates a problem in future or it's OK to use.

Swaping cables is mandatory or else we use disk 0 for hdd and disk 1 for nvme ssd (i.e., OS installed disk). Please suggest me.