How do I change Windows 10 from AHCI to AMD RAID?

Emphasis on the AMD.

I have found dozens of articles that state that you either need to boot into safe boot and let Windows install the driver or you enable the driver by altering a few registry entries from a '3' to a '0' (iaStor, iaStorSVC, ahciStor, etc), some articles state that you need to do a combination of both these things, but I came to the conclusion that these articles are only relevant if you have an Intel chipset (though not one of the articles mentions as such).

So, how do you switch from AHCI to RAID if you have an AMD chipset, namely the X370?

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services

Is there an entry in the above key that enables AMD RAID, seeing as there are entries that do the same for Intel RAID? I find it a bit weird that you would be able to enable or disable a myriad of different boot configurations here but not one that enables AMD RAID.


The only "solution" I have found so far is the following question on SuperUser.com where the guy asking the same question I am manages to solve it himself via some clever file hacking but his answer is almost a decade old, is likely for a different version of Windows, and both the name of his .inf file and the contents of that file are nothing like the .inf files that came with my driver...
How can I install an AMD RAID driver after Windows installation? - Super User

Any ideas, people?


PS. I'm not interested in Windows built-in mirroring or the new Storage Spaces thing. I'm using mirroring now and every time Windows fails to shut down properly my C:\ drive has to spend 5 hours re-synchronising, I've also heard you can't boot from a Storage Spaces pool which rules that out completely.

Windows 10 1909

Samuria said:

sooner than mirror or raid use disk imaging as that is bullet proof. With most raid you oftent end up doing a clean install. What raid are you going to use as with a lot if one disk fails you loose everything

Disk Imaging via what? Is this a Windows feature or using a third-party app? Also what happens when Windows crashes, as mine has a tendency to fail to shutdown/reboot around 1 in 20 times and this causes my mirror to spend 5 hours re-synchronising itself.

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Plankton said:

You do that in the BIOS.

Is this going to be setup on your PC with extra internal HDD's? Using this method is called software RAID and it has a tendency to brake vs a traditional hardware RAID. Which is very expensive.

Depending on the RAID setup.....you will need a minimum of 2 HDD's. Then go into the BOIS and setup the RAID for those 2 drives. This leaves you C drive intact and separate. Check your mobo manual on the exact steps of setting up the RAID.

FYI: I've done this on 2 Seagate 320GB hard drives and used the RAID as RAID 0 and as the C drive. It increased my over all performance quite considerably. I was pleasantly surprised. I had this setup for 2 years with no issue or RAID breakage.Then I moved to a single SSD and never looked back.

When I switch the BIOS from AHCI to RAID my C:\ drive no longer boots because Windows doesn't have an installed RAID driver, this is what I'm trying to solve. I already have two 4TB drives installed and ready for a RAID 1 array to become my new C drive, currently the C drive is two 1TB drives mirrored via Windows Disk Management and it is most problematic.

I have the driver, but I can't install it if I'm not running RAID yet and I can't run RAID without the driver. I need to find a way to pre-install the driver.

Have you tried this method that you mentioned in your first post?
1. Run MSCONFIG
2. Enable Safe Boot (minimal)
3. Reboot into UEFI / BIOS and change to RAID
4. Boot up into safe mode
5. Run MSCONFIG and disable Safe Boot.
6. Reboot

I did this on an amd motherboard to switch from ide to ahci.