![]() ![]() If there is some other way around the above, I'd beg to know it. But you can bet I'll never buy another one with this default. On the Optiplex, I'm living with the problem as I'm past the 30 days. So again, I have to go buy Windows 7 fresh retail copy to get rid of this bizarre and unecessary default in the Dell Setup. The recovery partition becomes useless, as it's the same RAID default as when the product shipped same for the reinstallation disk provided with the machine. Its default is a RAID array, so I can't change it to AHCI without having to REINSTALL Windows. The same problem is on a Dell Optiplex 780 which I purchased in November from dellauction. So I will cancel the order, pending resolution of this problem. So why would I want to buy a Dell laptop, as I just did? I wouldn't. Since the machines purchased at Dell don't come with full reinstallation media, then effectively I'd have to go BUY a full copy of Windows 7 after changing to AHCI in BIOS, else Windows 8 won't install. Now why would anyone make such a bad default? For Windows 7 installed and Windows 8 upgrades can't work with RAID on, must be changed to AHCI, which means completely reinstalling Windows. On page 83 of the 6530's manual, it says that by default RAID is ON. ![]() Last night I just ordered and will cancel shipment of, a Latitude 6530 laptop if I can't get this issue about disabling RAID resolved. ![]()
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