Motherboard ASUS P6T Deluxe (still rockin after all these years lol)
Recently did a free upgrade from windows 7 to windows 10 after support stopped for windows 7. The build has 2 hard drives in basic raid striped configuration. After upgrading to windows 10, the hard drives seemed to be a bit sluggish, so I was going to upgrade to a SSD instead. I decided to update the BIOS to latest version to accommodate any other hardware upgrades I might do. I was running BIOS version 1303 and updated to version 2209.
One unusual thing was that many of the BIOS versions in between said to update the firmware for the marvell SAS controller to a ver 3.--- after BIOS update. (Mine is running a ver 1.-- during the boot process). Seems like that needs done in windows, not in BIOS. I can't figure out how to update the firmare which might solve the problem. The mobo has a mini OS that allows you to boot into. That mini OS recognizes all the info on my hard drives and the existing folders, pictures, etc.
The mobo was resetyto RAID configuration and it does see the volumes exist but says they are not bootable. Possibly because the MOBO was not designed to support windows 10. The only solution I can think of is to install a new raid array on new discs and install windows on that, then see if I can retrieve all the stuff from my old array. Ultamately, I want to backup about 1TB of information. (I should have done that first, I know). The mobo will also not let me reload an older bios version, its an Asus thing I guess. Does anyone have any suggestions to fix this, so that 1. it will recognize the RAID array as bootable 2. how to update the firmware without going into windows.
Recently did a free upgrade from windows 7 to windows 10 after support stopped for windows 7. The build has 2 hard drives in basic raid striped configuration. After upgrading to windows 10, the hard drives seemed to be a bit sluggish, so I was going to upgrade to a SSD instead. I decided to update the BIOS to latest version to accommodate any other hardware upgrades I might do. I was running BIOS version 1303 and updated to version 2209.
One unusual thing was that many of the BIOS versions in between said to update the firmware for the marvell SAS controller to a ver 3.--- after BIOS update. (Mine is running a ver 1.-- during the boot process). Seems like that needs done in windows, not in BIOS. I can't figure out how to update the firmare which might solve the problem. The mobo has a mini OS that allows you to boot into. That mini OS recognizes all the info on my hard drives and the existing folders, pictures, etc.
The mobo was resetyto RAID configuration and it does see the volumes exist but says they are not bootable. Possibly because the MOBO was not designed to support windows 10. The only solution I can think of is to install a new raid array on new discs and install windows on that, then see if I can retrieve all the stuff from my old array. Ultamately, I want to backup about 1TB of information. (I should have done that first, I know). The mobo will also not let me reload an older bios version, its an Asus thing I guess. Does anyone have any suggestions to fix this, so that 1. it will recognize the RAID array as bootable 2. how to update the firmware without going into windows.