On 21 Jun, 19:32, "P. Di Stolfo" <paolodisto...********.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> Hello,
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> if it is being used, you can switch it off in BIOS.
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> Greetings,
> P. Di Stolfo
>
> <adrian7...******.co.uk> schrieb im Newsbeitragnews:1182450418.115310.42500@m36g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
>
>
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> > On 21 Jun, 19:19, "P. Di Stolfo" <paolodisto...********.com> wrote:[color=darkred]
> >> Hello,[/color][/color]
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> >> could it be that your hard drives are built in a RAID? This would mean
> >> that
> >> your data is mirrored onto the second drive for data security and
> >> therefore
> >> there are only 250 GB available.[/color][/color]
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> >> Greetings,
> >> P. Di Stolfo[/color][/color]
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> >> <adrian7...******.co.uk> schrieb im
> >> Newsbeitragnews:1182449231.151789.3840@m36g2000hse.googlegroups.com...[/color][/color]
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> >> >I have two identical Western Digital SATA hard drives both 250GB. The
> >> > PC knows both devices are there in the bios and device manager but
> >> > when viewed from my computer it only shows a single SATA drive with
> >> > 250gb storage ??[/color][/color]
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> >> > Vista was installed as a new install not upgrade.- Hide quoted text -[/color][/color]
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> >> - Show quoted text -[/color][/color]
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> > Hello[/color]
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> > If it is I didnt tell it to and dont want it !![/color]
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> > How do I tell the PC not to use RAID?- Hide quoted text -[/color]
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> - Show quoted text -[/color]

Been messing around with that and cant see where to turn it off

Out with the manual I guess.

Just for info MB is a MSI 975X Platinum power up edition