Hi,
I made the mistake in installing most recent RST on an older Intel S3200SHV Server board with Intel® 82801IR I/O Controller, evidently all hell broke loose as i got spinning dots at reboot. In order to address the issue I set the controller to IDE after unplugging one of the drives. I did some research and apparently version 10.8.0.1003 is the latest one that would work with this legacy controller, can anyone please confirm this and if so, how can i go back to my RAID setup if the server no longer boots when set to RAID (Latest RST has already been uninstalled).
Your suggestions are greatly appreciated
@SarvenAtam :
Welcome to the Win-RAID Forum!
It will not be easy to get your Intel RAID system bootable again without doing a fresh OS installation. What you can try to do is to boot off an USB Flash Drive containing the original Windows Server 2016 image and to choose the “Repair” option. Maybe you will be able this way to load a matching Intel RAID driver and to repair the boot sector.
The latest Intel RST RAID driver, which natively supports the old Intel SATA RAID Controller with the DeviceID DEV_2682, is the v10.1.0.1008 WHQL.
Good luck!
Dieter (alias Fernando)
Is there a way i can install v10.1.0.1008 WHQL while in IDE mode? Since i cannot boot into the O/S in RAID anymore. Also this is a Domain Controller so re-installing everything is not an option 
No, you will not get it installed, because none of Intel’s MSM or RST drivers do support the IDE mode.
The main question is: Where is the OS installed (within or outside the RAID array)?
The Win 2016 Server Essentials O/S was installed on a RAID1 managed by the Intel® 82801IR I/O Controller, i installed RST (Latest), rebooted and got spinning dots i guess the latest RST updated Win 2016 native drivers at the same time…
I then had not choice but to unplug one of the drives part of RAID1 and boot with IDE, i’m wondering if there’s a way to copy or restore RAID drivers, boot back up in RAID and rebuilt RAID1
You should consider, that both HDDs/SSDs are still members of the RAID array. So if you want to boot off any of these 2 disk drives, you have to break the RAID array as first step.
Another option would be to use a 3rd HDD/SSD, to install any Windows OS onto it in RAID mode and to use the existing, but not bootable RAID array as data storage location. This procedure may work. Windows 10 has a generic in-box Intel MSM RAID driver v8.6.2.1025, which natively will support your on-board Intel SATA RAID Controller and the already existing RAID1 array.