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    Why won't Dos see my SATA drives when Raid does?

    I have 2 disks in the machine - otherwise - you are right there would be no reason to use raid - and come to think of it I want two seperate drives anyway so i will try and disable raid -
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    Why won't Dos see my SATA drives when Raid does?

    Thanks for the reply, I'm using the native chipset controller in the motherboard - it is said to be raid complient anyway... I'll try to see if I can disble the raid function in setup. If I did want to use the raid setup I would need additional drivers perhaps, I have some software on cd but...
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    Why won't Dos see my SATA drives when Raid does?

    Hi Everyone - bit of a newbie - but have some knowledge. Building a new machine; asus P4S800d_x motherboard nvidia graphics card intel 2.4 450 w ps 2x sata drives Bare machine, everything new, trying to get the hard drives up and running so I can install XP. I can get the machine to see the...
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    Is SATA crashing my computer?

    I've just come to this thread looking for answers as to why a home built new machine won't recognise drives in dos - asus p4s800d-x intel 2.4 2x sata nvidia 500w power it sounds like sata is very twitchy..? I can get into the raid functions and get them up and running but cannot see them in DOS.