Windows 10: Raid 1 drive not working in Win 10 x64 after PC upgrade

Raid 1 drive not working in Win 10 x64 after PC upgrade

Hi all,

I upgraded my CPU, Motherboard, memory, and SSD. Cloned the SSD so I didn't have to reinstall Win10x64 OS. Most things went smoothly, but it was surprising that my 2 HDDs in simple RAID1 configuration didn't not transfer over well. Of course the RAID1 configuration was working fine in Win 10x64 prior to my upgrade.

I went into my BIOS and configured for Intel RST Premium With Intel Optane System Acceleration - which enables RAID for the SATA controller. And was able to select the 2 HDDs I have for that configuration with existing data. When I booted up and ran Intel Optane Memory and Storage Management, it seems to show the array properly without any issues. However Win10 sees the drive as one that needs to be initialized and formatted. When I started Disk Management, it said that Disk 1 my RAID1 drive needs to be initialized. I did so without formatting it don't want to lose data. What I got out of it is now I have a drive letter F: for my RAID1 drive. It now shows F: as RAW Healthy Primary Partition. When I try to access that drive using File Explorer, it tells me "You need to format the disk in drive F: before you can use it."

Then using Intel Optane Memory and Storage Management, I proceeded the long initialize process for the RAID1 drive. Afterwards, the File Explorer still shows I need to format drive. Now it shows a drive that's initialized, but system volume is a No.



Is there a way I can create a system volume without formatting?



I've tried using software like AOMEI Partition Assistant Pro, where I would choose partition recovery wizard, it showed that my main partition has all the file structures I expected, but when I try to proceed, it stops because "The selected partition overlaps with existing partitions.", but I don't have any existing partitions since all space are still unallocated.



I believe I can use Data Recovery software and get my data back, but it would be much easier if I can just somehow recreate the folder structure that's there.

:)

 

RAID 1 C Drive and windows 10 Upgrade

My C Drive is setup as a RAID 1 mirrored drive. Will I have problems with the windows 10 upgrade?

 

How to image 2 hard drives with raid 1

Hi there
Not sure if this is the best way but should work.

1) backup data to individual external drives (or whatever -- cloud services etc). For basic data - use ROBOCOPY ,XCOPY, or simply Windows / File explorer.
2) install new HDD's
3) Create your RAID array's for the new drives.
4) restore data saved via step 1).

If you have the Windows OS on a RAID device then that's beyond my knowledge - AFAIK Windows needs a hardware card with a driver to boot a RAID device. However the suggestion I've made will save / recover your DATA files.

Cheers
jimbo.

 

Need specifics on RAID 10

step 1) purchase a raid card that does raid 10 and has 4x mini sas. you will want at least 1024 ram on that chip.
step 2) purchase 16 2 TB enterprise class constellation drives
step 3) purchase another whole rig to do the same thing
step 4) setup rsync to copy all of the changed data from server 1 to server 2
step 5) buy 2 800 watt BBU (1 for each)

there.