RAID Array Deletion and OS Install Problems

[Farrar]

OK...I have completed every step suggested and still have problems. I spent 6-8 hours today trying differnet utilities, driverrs, changing BIOS and RAID settings, etc. and I am still not able to view either drive. I have also removed the battery from the MB to reset the BIOS which made no differnce either. When booting to the XP setup disk, I am told that there are no configured drives. When using FDISK, I see only the Dell Resource CD I am using to get to a command prompt.

Upon booting, here is what I see:

A description of the RAID array saying there is a 149 GB mirror with a normal status and the array is bootable.

A listing of each physical drive. The drives show up on ports 0 and 2 respectively with identical information other than the serial numbers. Each shows as 149 GB.

Then, I see a line stating I can access the RAID configuration panel by pressing CTRL-I {which I DID access about 100 times today} and following that, a flashing cursor. that is as far as I can get. I do have the RAID configured to the default setting of RAID / ACHI. The other settings are RAID / ATA, RAID Only, and Composite. I have tried all optons.

I am at the point of buying a barebones Dell, pulling my RAM, DVD Writer, etc. and putting what's left in the back of the closet BUT I KNOW there is something simple I am overlooking.

Thanks for any help you can offer!

Jeff Farrar