Thanks everyone for the replies and ideas. Still nothing back from ASUS from the next level support. SFC /scan now, chkdsk /f, /f /r, and dism /online ‘cleanup-image /restoreheath (and /checkhealth and ‘scan health) find nothing. The ship is sinking to a reinstall of everything, for which I am well prepared with all apps and data backed up in 1,2,3 method, so I figured I’d try uninstalling patch KB5029351. It didn’t help, and I started getting loads of BSODs, eventually making it impossible to load windows at all.
So reinstalling windows it is! I used windows media creation tool to make a win 11 bootable USB, dug out my license key, and then filled another USB drive with all the latest drivers both from Asus support and from every one of MoKiCHU’s threads all extracted to folders with their original zip file name. Setup gives me 2 choices:
1. Upgrade install windows (can’t do this because it needs a bootable, running win instance to run from.)
2. Custom install windows only (advanced). - only option.
I start and no installable drives are listed so I need to load drivers; I’ve done this before, so OK. I remember post saying to install Chipset drivers -> MEI Drivers -> VMD Drivers
But CHIPSET_Intel_v1-.1.19502.8391 has no drivers in it to load. I know I need to get RAID working so I can install windows to my (still existing) 4 x 4TB NVME RAID 10 volume.The only directories I have that include anything installable at this point are, these two, which each contain 2 drivers, one managed and one unmanaged:
1. Intel_RST_Driver_V19.5.0.1037_WIN10_WIN11_64-bit.
A. HSA and Install Dirs contain no drivers
B. Driver Dir includes:
i. Intel RST VMD Controller A77F
ii. Intel RST VDM Managed Controller 09AB
2. VMD_Intel_v19.5.5.1052
A. Has just an install dir with the same file names as i. and ii. above.
So which to install and where are the chipset drivers I’m supposed to install first? I seem to remember the unmanaged flavor was favored, so I install 1.b.i above.
looks good, li can now see all my drives. My RAID10 is there, as well as all the other drives, partitions, MSRs, etc.
my 4x4TB NVME RAID10 (Drive 2 Partition 3) is my target for windows, but it says ‘We could not Create a new partition or locate an existing one. For more information see the setup log files (wherever they are.)’ so I format that partition and try again. Same error. So I delete the partition and make it new. Same error. I delete all drive 2 partitions and make it new, SUCCESS!
That’s my story so far, windows is installing, I’ll update if anything weird happens. Maybe this will help someone as clueless as me get through this maze. If you have any comments or suggestions about what I’ve done or need to do I’d love to hear it.
should I try a beta bios?
