How to activate and setup RAID 1 on a HP Engage One Pro AIO system?

[hjgode]

Hello

I installed a second M2 SSD in the device and started into the BIOS. Their I activated Advanced>System>RAID option. Then I saved the change and rebooted. No additional BIOS message to see. Installed Windows 10 65Bit. Deleted all partitions on drive 0 (strange already, that drive 0 and 1 were shown in the Win10 Target selection).

Windows installed fine and has been updated with all drivers. But still the second drive was visible in disk manager 😞

I download and run HP Assistant tool and then the Intel Raid tool. The install failed with error "not suitable for the device".

Where can I set the RAID disks and RAID level, so that Windows 10 only see one drive?

Thanks

Josef

[DGroves]

https://www8.hp.com/h20195/v2/GetDocument.aspx?docname=c06986242

https://support.hp.com/us-en/product/hp-engage-one-pro-aio-system/35878166/manuals

https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c06994660

your business AIO comes with 2 M.2 slots for storage devices and if doing raid both SSD's should be the same capacity/model

just why are you trying to enable bootable raid? there is no speed increase. and moving a intel firmware raid to another system will require the new system to have the same level/revision of raid or higher in it's bios

After enabling the RAID option in the BIOS,  reboot, and if the CTRL-I prompt does not show during boot then the system does not support bootable raid and RAID management must be done under the OS with the Intel RST utility

i do know the earlier AMD based Engage Flex Pro  models did not support bootable raid, and your later intel based system may have the same limitation

[hjgode]

Sorry, but this does not help.

The prompt is not there and the Intel RST does not install.

The documentation does not give any more details about RAID except for how to enable.

[DGroves]

Josef, i recommend that you go back and REREAD what i wrote about   "CTRL-I"

also posting that RST will not install without stating which ver RST, how it's being installed and what happens in detail when installing means that replies like "RST not installing" is absolutely useless........... as it provides no useable information that i or anyone else can use in trying to diagnose what's going on with your attempt to install the  RST package

[hjgode · Accepted solution]

Hello DGroves

I found the important part by chance (playing around in the BIOS menus).

In BIOS setup you need to enable Advanced>System Configuration>"Configure Storage Controller for RAID"

Then go to BIOS>UEFI and boot  the third-party UEFI Option ROM Management application. Then save changes and the device will reboot into Intel Rapid Storage setup. There you can setup the RAID...

In revers order...

Thanks for the help

Josef

[DGroves]

perhaps you missed the part where i stated: "After enabling the RAID option in the BIOS"