Windows 10: Two drives in some sort of software RAID config.

Apparently I turned on Intel Rapid Storage in BIOS and now I can't clone a drive to make it a boot drive. Idek how to tell if it's in raid but it won't boot with Intel Rapid Storage off. Do these pictures look like a RAID configuration? how could I split these two to make them fully seperate drives without having to reinstall windows

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RAID 0 - Help wanted once again

Currently OS is installed on my 500Gb Maxtor.

I want my OS on a RAID 0 config - Using 2 WD Blue drives.


EDIT: Just seen your edit.... I should of done that to start with, but some how I missed that step and created a software RAID within Windows, which has created a drive called "Boot (X)" see photo's above, and now I'm unable to simply create a RAID through the usual way.

 

software raid discovery

Hello,

Software RAID (redundant array of independent disks) is a form of
RAID performed on the internal server. RAID is a data protection method that can be in the form of hardware or software, depending on where the processing occurs.

This kind of issue is more complex than what is normally posted here in the Community. We suggest that you post your query in our
TechNet Forum for further assistance.

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Fresh Windows 10 install on RAID 0 drives with 64kb cluster size

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to perform a Clean W10 installation on my desktop.

However I'm using a RAID 0 drive structure and wanted to set a Stripe size of 128kb and an Cluster size of 64kb on the primary (SSD) drives.

I've searched a lot about the best way to perform a format with 64kb of cluster size on your primary Windows partition.

The best method I could find was using the DISKPART command in (elevated X: within the Windows 10 troubleshooter).

So I thought it was okay to assume that the RAID config is completely serparted from the partition config, and because of that I thought a format of the partition on my primary drive was never gonna affect my RAID config right?

• So firstly I deleted the previous RAID config (this also removes all partitions), set my bios to default settings and set the SATA boot mode to RAID, also enabled Intel Rapid Storage technology.
• After that I went to the W10 help and troubleshooting and created a primary partition on the (one and only Disk 0, because the RAID was allready in place, Windows saw this as 1 Disk). "create partition primary"
• I formatted that partition to have a 64kb cluster size like I wanted. "format fs=ntfs unit=64k"
• But when I tried to install Windows on it, it kept failing, even though it's the only Disk in the list and I have even loaded the Intel F6 Raid Controller drivers on the Disk, but still got that error that the Disk could not be used to install.

I'm assuming that 2 things could cause my problem.

• Creating and formatting the partition messed up the RAID config.
• Windows does simply not allow an installation on a non default cluster size like 64kb.

I would like to know what the problem is from a professional.

Thanks in advance!