Windows setup can't detect Hard Drives in RAID 0

[Rory Schmitz]

I'm desperate here. I can't seem to get Windows setup to recognize the RAID I've set up. I've tried Windows 10 and 8.1 setups, but it's like the RAID driver isn't valid and setup just tells me that it cannot find my drives. Not sure what I'm doing wrong? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Motherboard: Asus M5A97 R2.0
SSD's: two 500 GB Samsung 850 EVO's

I'm installing windows from USB Drive.

Rory

 

[FireWire2]

Looking in system BIOS's RAID setting do you see the RAID volume? If you do...then all you need to load the raid drivers during set up.

If the RAID's BIOS does not see it... Well you need to re-create it

 

[Rory Schmitz]

Looking in system BIOS's RAID setting do you see the RAID volume? If you do...then all you need to load the raid drivers during set up.

If the RAID's BIOS does not see it... Well you need to re-create it

Thanks, I've verified I see a 999GB Volume in the RAID Configuration Utility. The BIOS Boot Option Shows My RAID0 as boot Option #1, but doesn't actually show me the size in the BIOS, only the RAID Config Utility. I've downloaded the RAID/AHCI drivers from the ASUS website, and specify them when it asks during Windows Setup, but not luck. Do I need to do anything with Secure boot? My SATA Configuration is set to RAID and not AHCI or IDE.

I've also tried downloading Windows 7 and trying to install that thinking that maybe the Windows 8/10 SATA Driver was bad. No luck with that either. I've downgraded my bios as well after reading some other threads that it may help. I feel like I'm doing the process correctly, but missing a setting or something...

 

[FireWire2]

What error did you get when install OS ?

 

[Rory Schmitz]

I basically get this message when selecting the driver: Link

The driver runs through and is detected as compatible with my hardware, but when I click Next, the progress bar runs through and then it goes back to the setup window and gives me a generic message about Windows could not detect any hard drives and to Load Driver.

 

[FireWire2]

Sorry I do not see what you are refer as RAID0 - 2x 500GB, BTW are you try to re-image the boot drive or install a fresh OS