Non RAID oR RAID

[gumdigger]

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?.

 

[megamaced]

Okay, I am puzzled :confused:

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

 

[gumdigger]

Okay, I am puzzled :confused:

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

Yes i notcied..
Can the admin delete this post plze
it makes me look stupid.

 

[Karanislove]

You can do it by yourself just go to edit and delete it~! and dont worry sometimes I do stupid things though.............~!

 

[Big B]

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.