Hi all, I'm pulling my hair out.
I have a gigabyte GA-X79-UD5 motherboard and 6 HDD's. I have installed windows 5 times in 24 hours and I still cant get my system set up how I want to.
I have:
Drive 1 (SSD)
Drive 2 (500gb velociraptor)
and then 4x 1TB WD Black drives. I want to create 2x 2TB raid0 using the WD Black drives.
When I go into the biod and turn the intel Sata Controller mode from the standard AHCI to RAID as recommended by the board and I then try to boot into windows with OR without having already gone into the raid config screen and created my raid arrays.. I get a flash of a BSOD (doesnt stay on long enough to read) and the PC then restarts to the startup repair screen. If I repair it doesn't fix it, if I continue to start windows as normal I get stuck in a loop.
Now.. when I installed windows I had the intel controller mode set to AHCI. I have read elsewhere that this might cause the BSOD and I should have had that set to RAID BEFORE installing windows.
With this in mind I deleted my arrays and created new volumes with my discs in disk management and I now have 6x seperate HDD's showing in my computer.
I then went into bios and turned the intel controller mode to RAID, and then on next restart booted from windows disc to install for the 6th time in 24 hours..
When I am asked to select which disc I want to install windows on, it shows NONE of my 6 discs.
If I change the intel controller mode back to ACHI I can then boot into windows as normal and see all of my 6 individual drives, however if I change the intel controller to SATA, I then can't boot to windows because of the BSOD and can't boot from disc to reinstall windows because it doesn't see any of my discs when asking where I want to install.
Please help
I have a gigabyte GA-X79-UD5 motherboard and 6 HDD's. I have installed windows 5 times in 24 hours and I still cant get my system set up how I want to.
I have:
Drive 1 (SSD)
Drive 2 (500gb velociraptor)
and then 4x 1TB WD Black drives. I want to create 2x 2TB raid0 using the WD Black drives.
When I go into the biod and turn the intel Sata Controller mode from the standard AHCI to RAID as recommended by the board and I then try to boot into windows with OR without having already gone into the raid config screen and created my raid arrays.. I get a flash of a BSOD (doesnt stay on long enough to read) and the PC then restarts to the startup repair screen. If I repair it doesn't fix it, if I continue to start windows as normal I get stuck in a loop.
Now.. when I installed windows I had the intel controller mode set to AHCI. I have read elsewhere that this might cause the BSOD and I should have had that set to RAID BEFORE installing windows.
With this in mind I deleted my arrays and created new volumes with my discs in disk management and I now have 6x seperate HDD's showing in my computer.
I then went into bios and turned the intel controller mode to RAID, and then on next restart booted from windows disc to install for the 6th time in 24 hours..
When I am asked to select which disc I want to install windows on, it shows NONE of my 6 discs.
If I change the intel controller mode back to ACHI I can then boot into windows as normal and see all of my 6 individual drives, however if I change the intel controller to SATA, I then can't boot to windows because of the BSOD and can't boot from disc to reinstall windows because it doesn't see any of my discs when asking where I want to install.
Please help