Hello all,
I am having issue with getting my NVMe RAID 0 array in Windows 10 install even though I am loading the driver.
The RAID 0 consists of 2 Samsung 970 PRO 512 GB NVMe drives, mounted on a Zenith Extreme motherboard flashed with the latest BIOS firmware. Used the latest download on Windows 10 ISO.
I set up my RAID 0 in the RAIDXpert Utility in the BIOS, everything looked good. I proceed with loading Windows 10 x64 Pro OS install, when I get to the drives, both NVMe's show up there.
I then proceed to load the rcbottom driver, it loads pretty fast, both NVMes dissapear ofc, then I proceed with loading the rcraid driver. It takes roughly 7 minutes to load and, to my surprise, no virtual drive is showing after it finished. I figured that maybe it also needed the rccfg driver, which I load, and still no virtual drive. If I try loading rcraid a second time, I then get a blue screen on the Windows install.
I then installed Windows 10 on my 3rd 2TB 970 Evo NVMe. After installing RAIDXpert2, the drivers get installed, I then reboot and, surprise, the RAID0 virtual drive appears, so not really sure why it won't work during the Windows 10 Install.
Same problem, MSI MEG X399 Creation. During the windows installation, I can load the bottom driver, but loading the storport driver takes forever until I get a DRIVER PNP WATCHDOG error which results in a blue screen during the windows install and a reboot. I suspect its not playing nice with the Windows 10 1809 recovery, or maybe my configuration (1 M2 drive on the motherboard, 4 in the MSI expander card). I've double checked all the settings (i.e. setting the m2 expander to 4x-4x-4x-4x mode instead of 16x, etc).
I am trying to setup the single M2 as a boot drive and a giant RAID 0 for the other 4 drives.
The BIOS sees the arrays just fine. I tried leaving the 4 drives unassigned and setup just the single M2 drive as a boot drive but the storport driver install just hangs.