Thanks for your help. I'd really like to figure this out as the 2TB drive is where I keep most my data (just not the OS), and the other drives that I can accelerate are a lot slower.
-Please let me know which is the model number of the motherboard you are using?
ASRock H87M Pro4
-If you plug the hard drive on another SATA port, can you check if you are able select it on the software?
I've used different SATA cables and moved the drive to different ports. The problem follows the drive, and the other drives can be accelerated on the different ports.
-You mentioned the drive has a physical sector of 512 bytes, could you please make sure it is set as unallocated.
The 2TB drive has 512 byte sectors but those are per design and can't be changed. The SSD I'm using to accelerate I can allocate to acceleration, disable, re-enable. It works just fine with the two 3TBdrives.
The two 3TB drives that can be accelerated are both GPT since they are > 2TB. The 2GB drive I want to accelerate is MBR type. I wiped out the partition and created as GPT - makes no difference - still not acceleration option.
These are the system requirements
- Intel® Z87, Q87, H87, Z77, Q77, H77 Express Chipset-based desktop board
Motherboard has H87.
- Intel® Core™ Processor in the LGA 1155 or LGA1150 package
Using LGA 1150 - I7 4770 CPU
- System BIOS with SATA mode set to RAID
Set to RAID
- Intel Rapid Storage Technology software 10.5 version release or later
Running 12.9.0.1001
- Single hard disk drive or multiple drives in a single RAID volume
Trying to accelerate single drive
- Solid-state drive (SSD) with a minimum capacity of 18.6GB
128GB - using 64GB max
- Operating system: Microsoft Windows 8* or Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit editions)
Tried with 7 64 bit, 8 64 bit, 8.1 64bit.