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Background
I am currently running Windows 10 Pro, which is an in-place upgrade of a former Windows 8.1 Pro installation. Now I have downloaded the Win10.iso file by using Microsofts Media Creation tool, fired ab rufus and created a bootable USB stick, to perform a clean installation.
This is what my partitions look like. Drive 0 only holds the operating system
Question
The installer only recognizes one physical drive, which is my Samsung SSD plugged into SATA port 0. Besides that drive, I have four other drives, three of them are configured as an RAID0 array and the other one is acting as a backup drive.
Although the only drive showing up is the drive I would like to install to, why is setup not showing up the other drives?
Matze
Posted 2015-11-06T21:46:46.400
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1If they are not showing up I presume its because you are not supplying the RAID driver. – Ramhound – 2015-11-06T21:58:15.890
Windows (and actually any OS) can only show drives on controllers which it has drivers for. A lot of these are build in, but if you have anything to new or to old then you will need to add these drivers during installation. – Hennes – 2015-11-06T21:58:55.547
If that would be the case, then at least my backup drive 1 should show up. – Matze – 2015-11-06T21:59:01.327
1Not if it is on a RAID controller or a controller which can be configure as RAID rather than normal AHCI SATA. – Hennes – 2015-11-06T21:59:14.327
Thanks for your feedback, of course you were right. If anyone writes an answer I am going to accept it. – Matze – 2015-11-07T11:13:17.620