Windows 10: Intel RST RAID driver in Windows 10 causing disk errors!

Hello all, I just registered here to report the same problem on a Dell 7348 laptop with i5-5200U, a single SSD and standard intel/Microsoft drivers.

The symptoms are the same: the computer freezes for a moment while Disk I/O errors out as shown on the event log. The SSD is brand new and it took me a while to find anything about this problem on-line as it seems not many people are having it. To anyone reading: You're not alone!

I also pin-pointed this to either the SATA drivers and/or a conflict with the graphic card drivers (the toolbar flashes a 1px white line now and then) and I haven't found any driver combination that works. I don't have RAID and RST won't work either.

Going back to Windows 8.1 solves the problem (the SSD is in perfect conditions, of course).

This is a major let down and I'm amazed this problem is deemed obscure. I hope Intel gets its act together soon and fixes this.

 

I guess natural is a relative term *Smile. Now I'm retired, so have more time to deal with stuff like this. Fortunately my Win 10 experience has been fairly smooth so far.

 

Fixed!

I finally got this sorted out, here's what I did in case someone else can benefit from this:

1. After upgrading from Windows 7/8/8.1 to Windows 10, make sure to download and install all possible updates from Microsoft.

2. After no more Microsoft installs are found, go to the Device manager (right-click on start menu icon), then go to each and every device listed, right-click on it and update the drivers with the "Automatic" option. I found some devices (specially from Intel) find updated drivers not detected by Windows update.

3. If this does not solve the problem, go to Intel download site, search for the latest "Rapid Storage Technology" RAID driver for Windows 10, then download the -ZIP- version suited for your Windows system and extract the contents to a folder on your PC.

4. Go back to Device manager, and right-click on ATA/SATA controller device then update the drivers using the "Search" function, then browse to the folder with the extracted files and click on Next button to install them.

5. Your computer will need to reboot, do it and you should no longer see the "reset \Device\RaidPort0" error on your event log.

I wonder if the missing drivers undetected by Windows update have anything to do with the problem but I updated them anyway. You can also try the regular Intel RST installer and probably get the same result.

 

Thanks for posting this one, and I thought it was all me / my fault.

Have a really fast striped SSD array (three 240GB HDD's) was generally happy, and getting a peaked 1.7GB/s disk to disk transfer speed in file copying mode, but the Win 10 installation was reliably currupting and crashing, I'll try updating the RST driver package. and all other remedies.