Raid?

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Beginner here…

Installed WD Caviar Green drive.  1TB as 2nd drive ro backup.

HP Pavilion 64 bit. System 7

I will not use RAID and have no intentions to doing so.

When I boot up I get a DOS option regarding RAID…I go in to shutoff – it is already shut off, it says.

I have to wait for this DOS screen timeout before I get to Windows. I want to get rid of it.

I went to BIOS to see if I can DISABLE this unwanted option so it won’t show up again.

I only found 3 options list for my C: boot drive and the 2nd backup drive.

They are:  RAID, or IDE, or AHCI (whatever AHCI is or does)

On a search engine, apparently a person was talking about changing the 2 drives to IDE.

Does anyone have any comments? Will it be alright for me to do this without creating

any more problems for myself?  I am only trying to get rid of that COS screen at boot with

the waiting for the timeout…

with much appreciation…

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Check for a BIOS update for your specific motherboard. Normally, when you turn off a RAID in BIOS - it will not show up in the boot sequence. Be sure you SAVED the settings before exiting BIOS setup. Otherwise I would look for the BIOS update. Could be an issue with the installed BIOS.

If you have the drive installed on a RAID bus - that too could be why the motherboard keeps asking about the attached drive. You should get info from HP about the motherboard.

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Saturday…thanks for the reply.

I’ll chec km yBIOS update and then send a note HP.

thanks again…