[SOLVED] ASUS Z690 RAID not seen in Windows

[halj78727]

Just upgrading to the ASUS PRIME Z690-P-WIFI D4. I have a set of 4 SATA drives from my old system configured in RAID 10. The UEFI BIOS shows it as a RAID storage and in the firmware update tool it can read from the drive but it does not show up in Windows 10 - not even in the Disk Management utility.

 

[DSzymborski]

Was this RAID using a dedicated RAID controller, software, or motherboard's RAID controller? The first two are fairly easy to move, the latter, most likely a hard no.

Though it's a good opportunity to address whether or not it's worth the trouble to restore. Most people setting up RAID have no use case in which using RAID makes the slightest lick of sense. Unless you have very specific needs, you're better off wiping the drives, restoring from the backups, and then evaluating your needs from there.

 

[halj78727]

Was this RAID using a dedicated RAID controller, software, or motherboard's RAID controller? The first two are fairly easy to move, the latter, most likely a hard no.

Though it's a good opportunity to address whether or not it's worth the trouble to restore. Most people setting up RAID have no use case in which using RAID makes the slightest lick of sense. Unless you have very specific needs, you're better off wiping the drives, restoring from the backups, and then evaluating your needs from there.

I'm using the motherboard RAID controller. I have used the Intel RAID for many years and moved them from one system to another. As I noted, the RAID is readable in the BIOS, but not in Windows 10.

 

[halj78727]

I found the problem and solution. When I went to Device Manager, there was a flag on the RAID Controller (and some other devices associated with the PCH) which said there was no device driver. I went to the ASUS support page for my new motherboard and found the appropriate drivers - the RST driver in this case - and installed them. All good now.