Vista - Help on How to Enable Sata Raid on Sony Vaio laptop Please!

Hello All.
My Girlfriends mum had a problem with one of the two hard
drives on her laptop. She took it to PC world who remove the Faulty
hard drive and disabled the raid sata. So the laptop would only see
one drive. We have now bought a new drive and want to go back to
having 2 drives. Please can someone tell me how to enable sata raid
again? I thought it may of been in the bios setting but I can not see
it in there! Would be grateful of any help received.
Laptop is a Sony Vaio, running windows vista. The bios is phoenix.
Many Thanks. Paul

What is the model name/number for your Sony Vaio laptop?

"Mr Paul" <paul99@sky.com> wrote in message
news:1184793613.363451.238210@j4g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
> Hello All.
> My Girlfriends mum had a problem with one of the two hard
> drives on her laptop. She took it to PC world who remove the Faulty
> hard drive and disabled the raid sata. So the laptop would only see
> one drive. We have now bought a new drive and want to go back to
> having 2 drives. Please can someone tell me how to enable sata raid
> again? I thought it may of been in the bios setting but I can not see
> it in there! Would be grateful of any help received.
> Laptop is a Sony Vaio, running windows vista. The bios is phoenix.
> Many Thanks. Paul
>

More than likely, the SATA RAID is controlled by your SATA controller and
it's boot ROM. You should see a boot screen and instructions on how to enter
the the setup such as CTL+C or CTL+A, depending on the manufacturor. Once in
the setup program follow the on screen instructions, but be aware ... this
is not for the feint of heart, and you will loose all data on both drives so
be sure to backup and then restore. The caveate here is that the nerd
platoon that "repaired" the system may have disabled the boot ROM in the
BIOS.

Gary G. Little

"Mr Paul" <paul99@sky.com> wrote in message
news:1184793613.363451.238210@j4g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
> Hello All.
> My Girlfriends mum had a problem with one of the two hard
> drives on her laptop. She took it to PC world who remove the Faulty
> hard drive and disabled the raid sata. So the laptop would only see
> one drive. We have now bought a new drive and want to go back to
> having 2 drives. Please can someone tell me how to enable sata raid
> again? I thought it may of been in the bios setting but I can not see
> it in there! Would be grateful of any help received.
> Laptop is a Sony Vaio, running windows vista. The bios is phoenix.
> Many Thanks. Paul
>