I followed your instructions PRECISELY - changing Sata to "RAID" then installing OS, mobo drivers, Intel driver, video drivers. Rebooted - and it came up gloriously, and then started windows updates, followed by Easy Transfer - and it was gone.....

Since that time.... Norton security has failed - Windows Firewall won't start - and I can't backup through windows!

So I am restarting, doing a fresh install. and I'll leave out the Easy Transfer - and update here.