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Qandon
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Sep 26, 2025

AMD RAID1 in Windows 11 does not create EFI

I prepared Win11 Pro OS on USB installation media, set up AMD RAID1 mode in BIOS, loaded AMD RAID drivers before OS installation and it still does not work properly. To create RAID1 array in BIOS, it will ask you to wipe the drives beforehand. I followed all detailed instructions from the video below:

Two problems with the above approach:

  1. Windows 11 Pro (24H2) USB installation media does not seem to automatically create recovery partition for the OS, so future troubleshooting is not possible. There is only EFI partition and OS partition on disk 0.
  2. Once the RAID1 is up and running, EFI partition is not copied to disk 1, and the second drive does not have recovery partition either

Questions:
Is it possible to prepare those partitions beforehand and reject BIOS prompt to wipe everything during the creation of RAID1 array?

My issue was that if one drive was undetectable, the OS would not boot from the second drive because it did not have EFI partition, despite having all other data on it. Has anyone noticed this? One drive disappearing and reappearing forced me to rebuild the array almost daily. This confuses me. It should be that difficult.

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