Question Pre-existing RAID detected but not accessible ?

[orion_supernova]

OS: Windows 10 64 bit (Using a Windows 7 Home Premium Product Key)
CPU: AMD FX-6100
MOBO: Sabertooth 990FX
GFX Card: 8800GTX
RAM: 2x 8gb DDR3 1333
Raid 5: 5x WD 4TB HDD + 1x Hotspare
OS Drive: 1x 128GB SSD

Hi All,

I've been running the same RAID now for many years and recently needed to upgrade my CPU/MOBO.

As my RAID was running direct off the mobo i have decided to run the original system as a media server next to the new PC.

I migrated across my original OS drive to the new machine and that is running fine, but when i reinstalled windows 10 on a separate SSD for the original machine i have lost the ability to read the RAID.

The raid is reading as functional in the BIOS, and RaidXpert is showing the same; all drives healthy and functional with the RAID showing as intact.

Windows Computer Management (Disk Management) is showing the disk as available, but keeps asking me to initialize it.
When i cancel the option to initialize the disk, it still shows as a healthy partition.

https://imgur.com/5B3jnpY

View: https://i.imgur.com/5B3jnpY.png


Windows file explorer shows the drive as well, but when i select it, i am prompted to format it.

This leads me to believe Windows is missing a driver.

I have downloaded and installed the driver: "amd-nvme-raid-chipset-drivers_0830" but this has not solved the problem.
https://www.amd.com/en/support/chipsets/amd-9-series-chipsets/990fx

From the above website i also downloaded the "Sata Raid Windows Driver_9_2_0_70", but when opening the folder, i could not find any application to run.

I was hoping that i could get some help with the next step in the process.

 

[orion_supernova]

This one?

https://imgur.com/oY1whxk

View: https://i.imgur.com/oY1whxk.png

 

[Grobe]

This one?

https://imgur.com/oY1whxk

View: https://i.imgur.com/oY1whxk.png

Yes. Seems the drivers is already installed from that screenshot.

 

[SkyNetRising]

My understanding is that the OP has a hardware RAID.

It is windows storage spaces "RAID", since storage spaces protective partition in screenshot in post #1.

 

[orion_supernova]

It is windows storage spaces "RAID", since storage spaces protective partition in screenshot in post #1.

The RAID is hardware based, it is created and managed via a Pre-BIOS menu.

 

[fzabkar]

ISTM that the OP should have cloned the original SSD to the new SSD.

I suspect that there are settings in Storage Spaces which were not preserved when the new SSD was installed in place of the original one. I don't know anything about Storage Spaces, but it would appear that each of the component drives contains Storage Spaces metadata. I don't know how this is possible if all the physical drives are behind a RAID controller. As I understand it, Windows should only see a 16TB virtual physical disk, not the individual drives. :-?

IMHO Storage Spaces is a silly idea that massively complicates data management (and recovery).

Edit:

Can CrystalDiskInfo and DMDE see the individual 4TB HDDs?

Do the individual disk drives appear under Disk Drives in Device Manager?

Where do the individual drives or the 16TB RAID appear in Device Manager when you select View -> Devices by Connection?

 

[orion_supernova]

Ok, i have solved the solution.

I have cloned my original Windows 10 install onto the new SSD and everything is working fine now.

 

[SkyNetRising]

I have cloned my original Windows 10 install onto the new SSD and everything is working fine now.

It was windows storage spaces raid. Wasn't it?
Check, if it is being shown under Control Panel\Storage Spaces.