I know for Intel motherboards, there's a setting in the BIOS that reads
something like: "Show SATA as:" and then the options are IDE or RAID. You
should have it set for IDE if you don't want to use RAID.
Cheers
<adrian7886******.co.uk> wrote in message
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> On 21 Jun, 19:32, "P. Di Stolfo" <paolodisto...********.com> wrote:[color=green]
>> Hello,
>>
>> if it is being used, you can switch it off in BIOS.
>>
>> 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:
>> >> Hello,[/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]
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>> >> Greetings,
>> >> P. Di Stolfo[/color]
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>> >> <adrian7...******.co.uk> schrieb im
>> >> Newsbeitragnews:1182449231.151789.3840@m36g2000hse.googlegroups.com...[/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]
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>> >> > Vista was installed as a new install not upgrade.- Hide quoted
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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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> 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
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