F5F Stay Refreshed Hardware Desktop After upgrading to W11, all SATA connections ceased functioning.

After upgrading to W11, all SATA connections ceased functioning.

After upgrading to W11, all SATA connections ceased functioning.

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05-04-2023, 02:56 PM
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I shared my own approach after consulting the Microsoft forum. It seems W11 behaves differently with certain drives, favoring RAID over ACHI. I changed the BIOS settings from ACHI to RAID, but it didn’t immediately restore the drives. I noticed two changes: during startup (before W11 loads), all four drives appear in the list, and the BIOS restores default settings with an option to press CTRL-C for configuration. In the Device Manager, two new RAID controllers appeared under "other devices" marked by a small yellow triangle, yet Windows couldn’t locate an updated driver. However, using the motherboard utility resolved the issue, and all drives reappeared.
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Dreaming_Storm
05-04-2023, 02:56 PM #1

I shared my own approach after consulting the Microsoft forum. It seems W11 behaves differently with certain drives, favoring RAID over ACHI. I changed the BIOS settings from ACHI to RAID, but it didn’t immediately restore the drives. I noticed two changes: during startup (before W11 loads), all four drives appear in the list, and the BIOS restores default settings with an option to press CTRL-C for configuration. In the Device Manager, two new RAID controllers appeared under "other devices" marked by a small yellow triangle, yet Windows couldn’t locate an updated driver. However, using the motherboard utility resolved the issue, and all drives reappeared.