The BIOS is a bit confusing and actually the terminology is incorrect. It would be more aptly named raid enabled/disabled.*
When raid is enabled to be able to load windows you have to do a custom install and load the IRST drivers during the install before you can see the drive. I have the folder with the IRST drivers on my windows install USB.
With that being said if you are running a single NVME drive leaving it as you have it is fine. There really is no performance difference. The only thing you gain with having raid disabled is if you are running a Samsung consumer NVMe drive like 950 or 960 you can use Samsung drivers and their magician software but neither works for the stock OEM Samsung drives. What do gain from using their drivers, nothing. I've tested both ways and proven time and again on different platforms that there is nothing to be gained from using their drivers. Same goes for magician, especially the latest version. The only thing it's actually good for is to upgrade firmware on the consumer drives.*
In summation you are fine as is.
What you are missing and is now gone forever is the factory recovery partition. If you don't have two other partitions one being windows recovery and the other being the BCD you didn't do a correct UEFI install. *
When raid is enabled to be able to load windows you have to do a custom install and load the IRST drivers during the install before you can see the drive. I have the folder with the IRST drivers on my windows install USB.
With that being said if you are running a single NVME drive leaving it as you have it is fine. There really is no performance difference. The only thing you gain with having raid disabled is if you are running a Samsung consumer NVMe drive like 950 or 960 you can use Samsung drivers and their magician software but neither works for the stock OEM Samsung drives. What do gain from using their drivers, nothing. I've tested both ways and proven time and again on different platforms that there is nothing to be gained from using their drivers. Same goes for magician, especially the latest version. The only thing it's actually good for is to upgrade firmware on the consumer drives.*
In summation you are fine as is.
What you are missing and is now gone forever is the factory recovery partition. If you don't have two other partitions one being windows recovery and the other being the BCD you didn't do a correct UEFI install. *
JustinThyme wrote:
The BIOS is a bit confusing and actually the terminology is incorrect. It would be more aptly named raid enabled/disabled.*
When raid is enabled to be able to load windows you have to do a custom install and load the IRST drivers during the install before you can see the drive. I have the folder with the IRST drivers on my windows install USB.
With that being said if you are running a single NVME drive leaving it as you have it is fine. There really is no performance difference. The only thing you gain with having raid disabled is if you are running a Samsung consumer NVMe drive like 950 or 960 you can use Samsung drivers and their magician software but neither works for the stock OEM Samsung drives. What do gain from using their drivers, nothing. I've tested both ways and proven time and again on different platforms that there is nothing to be gained from using their drivers. Same goes for magician, especially the latest version. The only thing it's actually good for is to upgrade firmware on the consumer drives.*
In summation you are fine as is.
What you are missing and is now gone forever is the factory recovery partition. If you don't have two other partitions one being windows recovery and the other being the BCD you didn't do a correct UEFI install. *
Thanks very much for your help, I will leave it on AHCI then, and the other thing i cannot see the BCD what shal i do to do it correctly?? thanks again, this is what looks like on windows
Your good, the BCD is the boot which is shown in your as EFI system partition. The only one I don't recognize is the unknown but for what it is I wouldn't mess with it seeing how its nearly full. Looks almost like the factory recovery partition but that should not be with a clean install. All the rest are normal UEFI windows install partitions.
