Hello everyone, hope you are all having a better day than I am, I’ve spent the last 6 hours reformatting my desktop, windows 10, and I can not figure out or even know if it’s possible to run a M.2 drive as my Operating System and my two, one terabyte hard drives in raid 0 for my games videos and music.
I have the latest AMD chipset and raid software installed, I tried multiple different way to get this to work and the only way I see it can is through windows software in disk management and setting up raid 0 that way, which I do not want to do, I’m sure I’m doing something wrong I just can’t see it. Any suggestions or fixes?
I haven’t ever used the AMD RAID stuff. But here’s my best idea:
Disconnect the hard drives temporarily and get Windows installed on the M.2. Get the AMD RAID drivers installed in Windows.
Then reconnect the drives and set up the RAID-0 in the BIOS, if that’s how you’re doing it.
Make sure that you are booting from the M.2. Once you’re in Windows the RAID driver should pick up the drives and make them show as one drive.
It might be possible that you have to configure RAID in BIOS and also set the SATA controllers to RAID mode. Double-check the motherboard manual. I’ve seen Intel boards with that issue: if the controllers are in SATA mode then Windows loads the individual SATA drives. I believe most Linux installs don’t care because they scan for RAID markers on the drives and load the right device-mapper setup.