Optane drive not being recognised as an Optane drive

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nzrock

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#245047 16-Jan-2019 07:52

I have a new windows 10 system where I have a 16gb optane drive installed in one of the 2 M.2 drives.

The motherboard is a rouge strix matx Z370-G with an 8700K.
The motherboard supports optane
I have enable Intel rapid storage in bios & have the intel optane software installed.

My problem is that the intel software does not see the optane drive, but windows see it as a 16gb hard drive, that can be accessed like any other drive.
I have tried changing all sorts of bios settings to no effect. I have tried both M.2 slots.

How do I get to work properly ?

greg

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#2161834 16-Jan-2019 07:53

Is the BIOS version latest?

Cheers

nzrock

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#2161845 16-Jan-2019 08:00

yes the first thing i did was flash the bios

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#2161861 16-Jan-2019 08:33

Is your bios in legacy or UEFI mode?

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#2161865 16-Jan-2019 08:37

Internet suggests this, had worked on my mates setup at my flat.

In order to properly set up your system, we recommend you to follow the next steps:

1- Backup all files on your system.

2- Convert partition table from MBR to GPT with MBR2GPT.exe in order to allow the system to boot after the BIOS change, Make sure that you have the Latest Windows(R) 10 updates installed:

A- Open Command Prompt with administrator privileges

B- Issue the following command: mbr2gpt.exe /convert /allowfullOS

3-Shut down and boot into your BIOS

4- Press F7 to go to the advanced mode.

5- go to Boot\CMS (Compatibility Support Module) and make sure is disabled.

6-Go to advanced\PCH Storage Configuration and check the following information:

A- SATA Mode Selection: Intel RST Premium with Intel(R) Optane(TM) System Acceleration(RAID).

After that please press f10 to save changes and restart.

Please try to access Windows 10 again and try to enable Optane

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#2161866 16-Jan-2019 08:39

Are you also pairing it with a HDD or SSD?
Is Aggressive LPM Support disabled?

nzrock

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#2163276 18-Jan-2019 15:25

Coil:
Are you also pairing it with a HDD or SSD?
Is Aggressive LPM Support disabled?

An Hdd
It is disabled

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nzrock

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#2163277 18-Jan-2019 15:28

Coil:
Internet suggests this, had worked on my mates setup at my flat.

In order to properly set up your system, we recommend you to follow the next steps:



1- Backup all files on your system.

2- Convert partition table from MBR to GPT with MBR2GPT.exe in order to allow the system to boot after the BIOS change, Make sure that you have the Latest Windows(R) 10 updates installed:

  A- Open Command Prompt with administrator privileges

  B- Issue the following command: mbr2gpt.exe /convert /allowfullOS

3-Shut down and boot into your BIOS

4- Press F7 to go to the advanced mode.

5- go to Boot\CMS (Compatibility Support Module) and make sure is disabled.

6-Go to advanced\PCH Storage Configuration and check the following information:

  A- SATA Mode Selection: Intel RST Premium with Intel(R) Optane(TM) System Acceleration(RAID).



After that please press f10 to save changes and restart.



Please try to access Windows 10 again and try to enable Optane

I get an error when running mbr2gpt. Disk layout validation failed for disk 0.

I have changed all the above settings but no luck

nzrock

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#2163278 18-Jan-2019 15:29

Andib:
Is your bios in legacy or UEFI mode?

I have tried both modes

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#2163280 18-Jan-2019 15:31

Is Drive 0 the Optane or HDD?

nzrock

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#2163335 18-Jan-2019 16:26

Coil:
Is Drive 0 the Optane or HDD?

It is a evo 970 m.2 drive boot drive

The optane drive is disk 3