ASRock MB-970EX4 RAID 5 Windows 2012

[acorrales13]

Hello All,

I'm attempting to do a RAID 5 configuration on this motherboard for a Windows Server 2012 install. I could only get RAID 0 (striping) and RAID 1 (mirroring) to work. For some reason, the Windows 2012 installation doesn't like RAID 5. It'll break up the RAID into seperate drives. It will give a messages like "Windows cannot be installed on this Drive because it is not bootable" and or it is a Microsoft Reserved Partiont. I went through these install steps ftp://66.226.78.21/manual/raid/970%2...e4/English.pdf to no avail. I treated it like a Windows 8 install so it looks like a USB Floppy drive isn't required in order to make boot diskette. Please let me know what information you need and I'll go ahead and gather them for you.

Thanks!

[parsec]

Re: ASRock MB-970EX4 RAID 5 Windows 2012

Ah, Win Server 2012 drivers, always a fun topic, since there are so few. At least it was like that early on, and has improved but not perfect.

You "... treated it like a Windows 8 install", meaning it is similar to WS 2012, or assumed a driver would be native to WS 2012? Either way, I would not assume a basic AMD RAID driver for your board's chipset is native to WS 2012.

The "floppy" RAID driver for use on a USB flash drive is listed under Windows 8 in the download page of your board, SATA RAID Driver (For system to read from floppy diskette during Windows installation), here: ASRock > 970 Extreme4

That is not a guaranteed fix for you, but simple to do and worth a try.

PS: Just noticed that the version of this driver included for Windows 8 seems identical to the Window 7 version. Right or wrong, I don't know.

[- wardog -]

Re: ASRock MB-970EX4 RAID 5 Windows 2012

Heh, why choose RAID5? Expect some awfully disappointing write speeds.