Question Removed SSD Still in Bios

[feelinfroggy777]

I had some issues with one of my PC's SSDs. First, I'll say I'm not an expert at SSDs.

My system restarted and instead of booting into windows it started scanning the E: and it took hours. I waited for it to finish and it said one of my 850 500gb EVO's was damaged (I dont remember the exact message). I did run it through Crystal Mark and both SSD's got a 98% score, so I dont know if it's dead or not.

So I unplugged both of the 850's cause I was not sure which one it was. I had them in Raid 0 through windows as a game drive.

After I unplugged the SSD's one of the 850 (port 0) was still listed in disk management as unallocated space (game drive was deleted cause of Raid 0). If I allocate space windows will give me an error message saying the drive could not be found. Going to device manager the 850 evo is still listed as installed (even though both SATA and power cables are unplugged). I uninstalled it from device manager and rebooted only to find it back again with both device and disk manager saying the same thing.

So I decided to pull the trigger and update to windows 11 thinking the nuclear option would solve the problem (I was gonna update anyway).

After a clean install of windows 11, the phantom drive is still listed in Disk and Device manager. This is when I decided to check the bios and noticed that when looking at the SATA port, the bios sees the 850 EVO installed on port 0.

I'm not sure what to do now. I disabled the SATA port in the bios and the drive does not show up in windows. My bios is F15 and there are no other updates.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

gigabyte z370 gaming 7
8700k
32gb Ram G-Skill
EVGA 3080
P31 - 1tb boot drive
870 EVO - 2 tb

Removed
850 EVO 500gb
850 EVO 500gb

 

[USAFRet]

I had them in Raid 0 through windows as a game drive.

More problems due to "RAID" that should never have happened.

After a clean install of windows 11, the phantom drive is still listed in Disk and Device manager.

That cannot be.
A full wipe and reinstall of the OS, there is nothing left of the old system.
It cannot know about about the RAID.

 

[feelinfroggy777]

That cannot be.
A full wipe and reinstall of the OS, there is nothing left of the old system.
It cannot know about about the RAID.

I know it cannot be. That's why I am here. I actually made 3 clean installs of Windows 11 using the USB bootloader. I thought maybe I made a some crazy mistake and had the OS loaded on the 870 instead of the P31. So I loaded windows 11 on the 870 and it was still there. So I loaded it back on the P31 (NVME) and it's there.

That's when I started digging around the bios because I wiped all the drives during the install and did upgrade through the Windows 10 upgrade system. I used a USB stick.

 

[feelinfroggy777]

More problems due to "RAID" that should never have happened.

I was not doing it for phantom performance, I just wanted one big game drive instead of 2 smaller ones.

 

[USAFRet]

I was not doing it for phantom performance, I just wanted one big game drive instead of 2 smaller ones.

The main thing you gained was 1 drive letter vs 2.
The other thing you gained is why we're here now....major problems.

 

[geofelt]

Can you clear the bios to default before proceeding?

 

[feelinfroggy777]

Can you clear the bios to default before proceeding?

Like clear the CMOS? I'll try that. I'm at work now but it's not a bad idea cause it's gotta be in the bios somehow.

 

[feelinfroggy777]

Can you clear the bios to default before proceeding?

Sorry, I missed the default. I'll do that too when I get home. I did not try that either.

Thanks for your help. I know you know this stuff.

 

[USAFRet]

I know it cannot be. That's why I am here. I actually made 3 clean installs of Windows 11 using the USB bootloader. I thought maybe I made a some crazy mistake and had the OS loaded on the 870 instead of the P31. So I loaded windows 11 on the 870 and it was still there. So I loaded it back on the P31 (NVME) and it's there.

That's when I started digging around the bios because I wiped all the drives during the install and did upgrade through the Windows 10 upgrade system. I used a USB stick.

You did these installs with only ONE of those dries physically connected at the time?

 

[feelinfroggy777]

You did these installs with only ONE of those dries physically connected at the time?

I left the P31 and the 870 installed when I installed windows . I pulled both 850's. I am not sure which one had the issue.

 

[USAFRet]

I left the P31 and the 870 installed when I installed windows . I pulled both 850's. I am not sure which one had the issue.

And therein can lead to issues.

Do a new install, with only the one desired drive connected.

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