Solved Question for storage drivers experts - Updated motherboard, can't boot unless in NVMe RAID

Hello,

I'm not afraid of challenges so I decided to try to keep my Windows installation following my upgrade from Asus Prime X570 Pro to Gigabyte X870E AORUS ELITE WIFI7, including CPU and RAM upgrade as well of course.

Upon starting the computer with the new motherboard, I've reset UEFI to optimal parameters and started up Windows to end up with BSOD INACCESSIBLE BOOT DEVICE. Booting into the recovery environment would not help, I would not even get access to boot in safe mode. Launching Command Prompt would show no disk, even with diskpart.

After further trials, I was able to boot into Windows after changing the NVME to RAID. I had played with RAID during the winter with my old motherboard but reverted to non-Raid for some time now, with standard Microsoft NVMe drivers showing up in Device Manager.

Now I'm trying to remove the NVMe RAID without success. I've tried a bunch of things. Everytime I disable RAID, my Windows boot doesn't see any disk.

Booting with my USB key will show up the disk just fine. I've asked ChatGPT, it offered a bunch of solutions, for which none of them worked.

Also, when playing with the UEFI settings, I end up with unbootable Windows no matter what I do. I can revert with a saved image I have access to, I've done it 3 times already.

How can I inject standard Microsoft NVMe drivers into the boot sequence ?

In this video, i will guide you on how to fix "We couldn't find any drivers. To get a storage driver, click Load driver" error message when installing Windows 10 or Windows 11.

I had an ASUS M52 some years ago with 2 HDDs [out of their business line], removing the second drive broke the booting. The BIOS had a default setting for AHCI/RAID and required both drives be connected. I removed the second one, changed the BIOS to AHCI only and installed on the only drive.

This is what Google AI shows for changing RAID to UEFI in Win11.

FreeBooter said:

In this video, i will guide you on how to fix "We couldn't find any drivers. To get a storage driver, click Load driver" error message when installing Windows 10 or Windows 11.

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thanks but I'm not trying to install Windows. I can install without any issue that's for sure.

BamaInArk said:

This is what Google AI shows for changing RAID to UEFI in Win11.

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Tried that already. It won't boot into safe mode as the boot process simply lose access to any disk.

BTW there is no AHCI for NVMe, just RAID or non-RAID.

OK I got it this time ! I deleted every hidden RAID driver, rebooted in safe mode with RAID disabled and then rebooted in normal mode.

All is good now ! Those hidden drivers are annoying !

kensiko said:

Tried that already. It won't boot into safe mode as the boot process simply lose access to any disk.

BTW there is no AHCI for NVMe, just RAID or non-RAID.

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Not sure how newer Gigabyte motherboards function but there also might be a VMD setting. Some motherboards use what's called "VMD" for RAID.