detpower

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Ok im a noob and i need some help with the SATA HD...My question is when you have a single SATA HD how do you set this up to install windows?Do i have to enable RAID in the Bios?the MOB is the M2N-E is there anything special the needs to be done to format the HD or is it just plug and play?
 

dmroeder

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No, you do not have to enable RAID. They are basically plug and play. Just plug it in and see if it's detected in your BIOS. It seems like when I built my PC, the ports came disabled, so I had to go into the BIOS and enable them. They are really no different than an IDE to work with.