Intel Rapid Storage Technology made HDD dissapear

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manpreet Tuteehub forum best answer Best Answer 2 years ago


Recently my laptop stopped booting windows. When I turned it on, Intel Rapid Storage Technology 12.7.0.1936 window showed up and said, that one of my SSD volume is disabled and asked me to press CTRL+I to enter Configuration Utility. When I pressed that, I was only allowed to select Reset Disks to Non-RAID option. So I selected it, but windows still failed to start with a Operation System not found message.

So I changed the following settings in BIOS:

  • SATA Operation: AHCI (instead of Intel Smart Response Technology)
  • Intel Rapid Start Technology: Disabled (instead of Enabled)
  • Boot List Option: Legacy (instead of UEFI)

Then I was able to launch windows setup from usb. Windows repair didn't help, I got The drive where Windows is installed is locked. Unlock the drive and try again. message. So I just temporary installed windows into SSD (during setup my 500GB HDD drive wasn't visible).

I even booted live ubuntu from usb and it didn't detect my HDD drive.

Also my HDD is not visible in BIOS. It shows Fixed HDD: None.

My laptop's specifications:

  • Dell Inspiron 14 7000 Series 7437
  • Intel Core i5-4210U CPU @ 1.7GHz
  • mSata Device LITEONIT LMS-32L6M m-(S1) 32GB
  • Windows 8.1

Does anybody know any tool or approach how to unlock my HDD from RST and make it visible again?

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manpreet 2 years ago

Physically disconnecting HDD cable and reconnecting it made my HDD visible again.

Then I just formatted my SSD and HDD and installed fresh copy of windows into SSD (I'm not going to use Intel RST again).


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