Windows 10 installation on Dell T7600 with PERC H310 Raid Controller

Question

We work in an environment with machines running mostly CentOS 7.3 but from times to times we need to switch to Windows 10.

To manage those changes, we have a PXE boot solution with tree options:

1. boot currently locally installed OS
2. reinstall CentOS (minimal OS with SaltStack recipe)
3. reinstall Windows 10 (restore a clone of a Windows 10 disk image with clonezilla)

The issue we're facing is that Windows 10 doesn't support the Raid Controller PERC H310. So basically, when restoring the Windows image, we can't boot on it because Windows doesn't find the drives. Same issue when trying a clean install, Windows doesn't find any local disk.

I've tested every solution I've found like testing with previous version driver during Windows install... doesn't help so far.

Also, I'm sure of the issue since when attaching the drive directly to the motherboard (so skipping the raid controller) it works.

Any suggested solutions will be appreciated. Thanks.

Solution

Edit: a new version of Windows 10 Pro for Workstations could maybe help you out this fall too if you can wait.

Windows 10 Pro for Workstations is a high-end edition of Windows 10 Pro, comes with unique support for server grade PC hardware and is designed to meet demanding needs of mission critical and compute intensive workloads.

• Expanded hardware support

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You will need to preinstall the driver to make it work (slipstream) or to give the setup the driver.

The easiest way, in the setup, some other forum give that file to get to give the setup the driver

http://downloads.dell.com/FOLDER04120408M/1/WINPE10.0-DRIVERS-A04-942XJ.CAB

and copy those folder to an USB stick and you will be ready to install

T7600-win10-A01-0P54F\T7600\win10\x64\storage\6DD29_A00-00\x64\iaStorS

T7600-win10-A01-0P54F\T7600\win10\x86\storage\6DD29_A00-00\x86\iaStorS

Comments

[Kevin Lemaire]

That's indeed the solution I've finally found out also. The link I used is different so I'll add this second source: downloads.dell.com/FOLDER03538550M/1/T7600-win10-A01-0P54F.C‌​AB dell.com/support/home/be/fr/bebsdt1/Drivers/…

[RalfFriedl]

The accepted answer mentions that there is a driver.