I purchased two SSDs to build a RAID 0 volume that would replace a regular hard drive that was a data drive (non-boot) on my system. I imaged the original drive to a network share, then switched from AHCI to RAID in the BIOS (which affects the boot drive as well). Surprise! Windows crashes on booting. After googling that, I see that this is because RST cannot deal with this switch auto-magically. So, I go back to AHCI, boot Windows, change 1 registry setting (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\iaStorV\Start from 3 to 0), reboot, change to RAID, reboot again, and viola, I'm in Windows, and I now am using the RST RAID driver. However, the RST UI would not come up. One RST re-install later and the UI comes up, but one last problem remains: the tray icon never reports that RST is running. This is not a big deal, because RST is indeed running, but I would like to have the icon fixed. Since re-installing didn't fix that, I am out of ideas.
I assume that my registry hacking (if you could call changing 1 setting hacking) has RST confused regarding the tray icon. But I am not up for playing musical registry settings, especially with a subsystem that controls access to my data.
Any brilliant ideas on how to fix this?