HI My sister got a new computer. it has a 300 GB WEStern digital sata 1 drive. now i was trying to install windows xp on it but XP kept saying that my HDD was not detected until i found that there were sata drivers to be installed. unfortunatley it required a floppy drive so that drivers can be copied to a floppy from the motherboard cd but i did not have a floppy drive so i found another way, which was to set the "Sata Operation mode" to "Non-sata" from bios. and so i did and now im up running winXP. Well basically what i wanted to ask was Will switching to non raid or not using raid affect the hard disks performance?.
Okay, I am puzzled You're talking about two completey different things here. I'm assuming that you only have one hard drive installed? In which case, you can't use RAID
You can do it by yourself just go to edit and delete it~! and dont worry sometimes I do stupid things though.............~!
You won't gain anything by having it set to RAID if you didn't create a RAID array. A regular SATA drive will function just like a standard IDE drive as long as it's not in a RAID configuration---in the sense that you're dealing with a regular ATA device and not a RAID mode as far as Windows is concerned.
