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    Booting with IDE instead of RAID

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    Booting with IDE instead of RAID

    Actually, I DO know what I'm talking about .... at least insofar as my report and question goes: 1) This refurb PC (old rig?? you're joking, right?) came with Win 7 pre-installed with the BIOS set to RAID even though there's only one drive. Why? I don't know. How? Ditto. That's just the...
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    Booting with IDE instead of RAID

    Hello, First time poster, frequent (recently) lurker. My refurbished HP desktop came configured for RAID but has just one drive. Long story short, this PC is slow and getting glacially slower -- apparently due to my hard drive's abysmal performance which, I believe, is due to (i) RAID config...