Want to boot direct IDE/SATA without raid.

Hi,
Have a 250G drive loaded with over 160 programs. Using Win XP-Pro that boots through a ASUS Motherboard with RAID. Problem is, I would like to boot direct from IDE/SATA without booting through Raid, but when I put the operating system on the drive 6 years ago, I pressed F6 and loaded the needed driver on installation.
The first few years I used Raid to only "copy" direct to another drive of the same size, but wasted more time from incomplete "copy" operations through RAID, that all copying the last 3 1/2 years has been done with 100% success with a putting in a program in Drive A:. My question, is there any way that I can remove the RAID driver, so I can boot direct through IDE/SATA? I tried shutting off RAID by changing the jumper on the mother board, for which yes it shut off RAID, but then I could not boot up.
Any sugestions or help on this matter would be greatly appreciated.
Thank You,
Richard

 

Doubt you are using RAID with a single disk/partition. The SATA drivers you loaded with F6 are necessary for the BIOS to see the HDD. The RAID chip on the mobo is used for this putpose, but you probably don't use the RAID features. However a screenshot of the disk management window in control panel, administrative tools, computer management, Disk management would help clear this up.

 

Want to boot direct.

Hi Steve,
On bootup it shows "1+0 stripe ". As I mentioned, I have not been using RAID for the last 2 1/2 years because it would get 85-95% of copying to my other hard drive and stop dead in its tracks. All my drives are swapable, for several reasons. First, because for security reasons of many files for business, I copy only to two other HD's, of which one is kept in second computer swapable tray, while a third drive is copied to from my main drive, and stored across the street to protect my files in case of fire. Before I add any new program or hardware, I do a full back up to another drive, for over the years I have had my share of I/O , or programs that would cause problems with others, and yes I know 160+ programs makes for more chances of something going wrong.
The drives on this computer I am talking about, are IDE. In [C:] computer management/action/all tasks/properties/hardware [it reads] Promise 1+0 stripe/raid 0 scsi disk device. In this same file area, there is a box to uninstall the raid driver. If I would uninstall the said driver and change the pin setup on the motherboard to "non-raid ", would I be able to boot up directly?

The reason I came out with "IDE/SATA ", is I picked up a computer that someone had spent a lot of money having built with many up todate hardware parts and gave it to me for the taking, as all he has had is troubles, for which I am going to rebuild it myself, and on it it has a, "SYBA SATA/IDE RAID Controller PCI Card.
Thank You,
Richard