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Originally Posted by dubrichie  thanks for the replies.
the SATA drivers for my mobo are installed, my system drive is SATA.
so i can just plug in the 2 new drives i want to use as RAID 1 when the machine is off, fire her up into windows and set up the desired RAID 1 on the 2 new, unformatted drives in windows disk management?
no need to install RAID stuff before getting to windows?
cheers, | This type of RAID configuration is done at the system hardware level, before booting into Windows. Your system might recognize the new drives without addt'l configuration ... or it might not. So it's best to simply check your CMOS settings when you first start, after installing the drives. This way you know you are good up to that point and they should be available. But you don't have to do this.
Once you are in Windows and the drives are recognized in Disk Managment, you can allocate them as you wish.
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