Intel RST VMD 20.1.0.5850 on MSI Tomahawk Z890

[Frustrated2]

 I have an old Dell T3500 running Win10Pro with two Crucial 2050MX300 SSD's, in RAID1 Mirror.  I've downloaded & installed Intel RST drivers and rebuilt the RAID volume, thankfully without losing data. I'm building a new computer using MSI's Tomahawk Z890 MB with Intel RST in the bios. I moved the drives to the new computer, the RST sees the drives, recognizes them as Raid 1 Mirror Volume 0 and bootable. The status says rebuilding... I thought this was fine / normal operation however, it's been rebuilding for more than 24 hours! Is it really rebuilding, there are no percentage stats? Should I interrupt the process? Thoughts?

[Mike_Intel]

Hello Frustrated2,

Thank you for posting in Intel community Forum.

For me to better understand and diagnose the issue further, let me ask you to provide detailed responses to the following questions. This information will help me isolate the problem and determine the most appropriate course of action moving forward.

1. Are you transferring the drives on an exact similar system?
2. Did you create a data back up before doing this?
3. Can you see any movement on the percentage of the re-building?
4. How big is the data in this RAID 1? Because re-building will also depend on the size of the drive or data in it.

If you have questions, please let us know. Thank you.

Best regards,

Michael L.

Intel Customer Support Technician

[Frustrated2]

Mike thanks for the reply. It's now been about 44 hours rebuilding.

1 - The Dell is a 2012 vintage with ATX MB, 24G Ram, Xeon W3680 processor 12 cores @ 3.33ghz, A17 BIOS. The computer I am building is the MAG Tomahawk Z890 MB, with Ultra 7 processor, 64G Ram. So no, they are not nearly the same. That said, after rebuilding the drives in the Dell using the Intel software RST and before moving the drives to the Tomahawk, I put Win10 Pro into safe boot mode, thinking that when the new computer boots on these drives I could add drivers one step at a time.

2 - Yes, I have backed up my documents, pictures, etc. The reason I want to move these drives to the new computer is to protect the licensing of different software I have, i.e. Autocad and its sub programs, Adobe suite, Windows etc. Not to mention the structure of my documents, PST files and all. After its up and running I will then be able to upgrade to Win11.

3- The BIOS version of RST implemented on the Tomahawk does not offer percentages in the rebuilding status. See the attached pics.

4- The RAID 1 is two Crucial SSDs 1.8TB each and has roughly 1.2TB of active data. Lots of Music, Pics, Visio Drawings, Cad Drawings.

[Mike_Intel]

Hello Frustrated2,

Thank you for the update.

The steps that you made are risky and not recommended. Specially in a case like this that the systems and the drives are not identical and take note that you are using a software RAID controller.

The recommended steps if you are moving the RAID volume are the following:

1. Create a data back up using the software of your choice.
2. Create the RAID volume on the target system.
3. Load data backup.

These steps should lessen the risk of data loss and hardware incompatibility.

If you have questions, please let us know. Thank you.

Best regards,

Michael L.

Intel Customer Support Technician

[Mike_Intel]

Hello Frustrated2,

I hope this message finds you well. 

Were you able to check the previous post?

Please let us know if you still need assistance.

Best regards,

Michael L.

Intel Customer Support Technician

[Mike_Intel]

Hello Frustrated2,

I hope you are having a good day.

I am sending another follow up to check if you still have clarifications. 

Since we have not heard back from you, I need to close this inquiry. 

If you need further assistance, please post a new question as this thread will no longer be monitored. 

Thank you and have a great day.

Best regards,

Michael L.

Intel Customer Support Technician